{"id":7456,"date":"2024-10-04T07:23:32","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T07:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=7456"},"modified":"2024-10-04T07:23:32","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T07:23:32","slug":"new-york-yankees-first-baseman-anthony-rizzo-still-sidelined-in-lead-up-to-alds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=7456","title":{"rendered":"New York Yankees First Baseman Anthony Rizzo Still Sidelined in Lead Up to ALDS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anthony Rizzo has yet to resume baseball activities, per Brian Cashman, meaning the New York Yankees will have to sort through other options at first base at the start of their postseason run.<\/div>\n
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Sep 10, 2024; Bronx, New York, USA; New York Yankees first baseman Anthony Rizzo (48) looks back after striking out during the eighth inning against the Kansas City Royals at Yankee Stadium. \/ Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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With the Game 1 of the ALDS two days away, New York Yankees first baseman Anthony Rizzo is still a way’s off from returning to the lineup.<\/p>\n

Yankees general manager Brian Cashman spoke about Rizzo’s status on Thursday, less than a week after the 35-year-old slugger was hit by a pitch and suffered two fractured fingers on his right hand. It was already expected that the injury would cost Rizzo the ALDS, but considering Cashman said that he had yet to resume baseball activities, Rizzo’s status throughout the rest of the postseason has been brought into question as well.<\/p>\n

“He’s gonna be trying to beat the turnaround time, typically, for that,” Cashman said. “But as I said, you treat the patient, not necessarily the MRI or the X-ray. And he is presenting well without doing activities thus far, so it’s giving us maybe a glimmer of \u2013\u00a0I wouldn’t say hope, but glimmer of ‘Hm, we’ll see. Let’s talk further about this down the line as we get closer to having to make the final decision.'”<\/p>\n

Cashman said Ben Rice and Oswaldo Cabrera were the primary alternatives to fill in for Rizzo. He also mentioned DJ LeMahieu as a potential option at first base, although the veteran has been out with a hip injury since Sept. 3.<\/p>\n

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