Left field has been a mess for the Yankees since Andrew Benintendi got an extra year and more money to sign with the White Sox as a free agent.
While the lefty-swinging Bauers had the Yankees’ only two hits until the eighth inning, he came up limping after he made a sliding catch on a Josh Lowe liner to end the top of the ninth.The Yankees left-field situation, though, is not.
They entered the game with a .566 OPS at the position, a number dragged down by the struggles of Oswaldo Cabrera, Franchy Cordero and Aaron Hicks.He went through pregame Thursday and isn’t sure if an stint on the injured list will be necessary. Jake Bauers strikes out to end the game, an 8-2 loss to the Rays, on Thursday night at Yankee Stadium.The long-struggling Hicks, who has been abysmal at the plate — and occasionally in the field — for much of the past two years, was coming off two straight games in which he had an extra-base hit, his first of the season.The Yankees’ outfield has been a bit of a mess for much of the season, with the team’s right fielders combining for an OPS of just .
Cabrera hasn’t shown he can hit consistently in the majors after proving his versatility in the latter part of last year.And while Kole Calhoun, recently signed to a minor league deal, continues to hit well with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, he hasn’t been considered an option to be called up to The Bronx.
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