Plenty of more to come on this game tomorrow, but the big story at the moment is another injury to a Yankee shortstop. Eduardo Nunez left tonight's game after appearing to injure his leg running the bases in the top of the 6th. He was advancing to second on a single by Lyle Overbay, and after Chris Stewart walked to move him to third he was taken out of the game and replaced by Jayson Nix. With no timetable for Jeter's return, the Yankees can ill afford to lose Nunez for extended time right now.
No word yet on any official diagnosis. More on this story as it becomes available.
** UPDATE 10:17 PM- Via the beat writer corps, Nunez was taken out of the game with a tight right hamstring. I assume an MRI will follow. **
Sunday, August 18, 2013
A-Rod's Lawyer Kicks It Up A Dozen Notches With New Accusations
The Alex-Rodriguez-New York Yankees-Major League Baseball threeway legal dance surrounding the Biogenesis case and A-Rod's resulting suspension has already been playing out like great TV drama. As someone who's admittedly tired of all the steroid talk in baseball and really doesn't care about it, I'll admit that I find each new rumor and leaked story to be both fascinating and entertaining. When the baseball season ends and the appeal happens, it's going to be absolutely wild.
How much wilder will it be after the latest story and newest twists laid out by A-Rod's legal team? Probably somewhere between "much" and "way." In a story published by the New York Times yesterday, A-Rod's newest lawyer, Joseph Tacopina went on the offensive in his efforts to build A-Rod's defense case. He accused the New York Yankees of intentionally hiding MRI results revealing A-Rod's labrum tear and continuing to play him while he was hurt, working in collusion with MLB to void A-Rod's contract and ban him from baseball, and singled out team president Randy Levine for allegedly telling the doctor performing A-Rod's hip surgery "I don't even want to see him on the field again." That's not just "looking to get on base" type of going on the offensive, it's swinging for the fences as hard as you can with a juiced bat.
How much wilder will it be after the latest story and newest twists laid out by A-Rod's legal team? Probably somewhere between "much" and "way." In a story published by the New York Times yesterday, A-Rod's newest lawyer, Joseph Tacopina went on the offensive in his efforts to build A-Rod's defense case. He accused the New York Yankees of intentionally hiding MRI results revealing A-Rod's labrum tear and continuing to play him while he was hurt, working in collusion with MLB to void A-Rod's contract and ban him from baseball, and singled out team president Randy Levine for allegedly telling the doctor performing A-Rod's hip surgery "I don't even want to see him on the field again." That's not just "looking to get on base" type of going on the offensive, it's swinging for the fences as hard as you can with a juiced bat.
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