Granderson fractures his pinkie

[manchild98]

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- In just his eighth game back after missing the first 38 games with a broken right forearm, New York Yankees center fielder Curtis Granderson fractured his left pinkie during Friday's game against the Tampa Bay Rays in the fifth inning after being hit with a pitch on his left hand. X-rays during the game revealed the fracture.

Granderson remained in the game after it happened, with one out in the inning, and advanced around the bases on two singles and scored the Yankees' sixth run of the game on a bases-loaded walk.

But he could be seen grimacing and flexing his hand while on the basepaths, and did not come out to play the field in the bottom of the inning. He was replaced in right field by Ichiro Suzuki.

"It's just crazy," Granderson said of his injury-marred 2013. "You can't really get too frustrated about it one way or the other, hang your head down on it. You keep your head up. It's done. You can't turn back the clock, any way you want to. That's part of it. You just go ahead and continue to move forward and be ready for whenever it heals back up and get a chance to be back on the field."

New York manager Joe Girardi said after the Yankees' 9-4 win that there was no official timeline for how long Granderson will be sidelined, but indicated it could be a minimum of four weeks.

http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/sto...n-new-york-yankees-fractures-pinkie-hit-pitch

 

[turok]

Yankees are just incredibly snake-bit with injuries this year, yet they still somehow have managed to remain @ or near the top of the AL East, as well as in many MLB/AL team O/D/P statistical categories. I have to very begrudgingly give them their due for their accomplishments thus far, as well as the surprising red sux, both of whom I thought would be battling all season, to avoid winding up in the ALED cellar.