Minnesota Twins prima Byron Buxton near their 6-1 triumph implicit the New York Yankees aboriginal connected Sunday with a hep injury.
Buxton tried to bargain 2nd basal doubly successful the archetypal inning aft helium deed an infield azygous to scope first. His archetypal effort was ruined aft Cody Clemens fouled disconnected a pitch. But Buxton tried aboriginal successful the at-bat and was successfully tagged retired by Yankees shortstop Anthony Volpe. It marked the archetypal clip that Buxton had been caught stealing successful his past 38 tries.
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While it didn't look similar thing large astatine the time, Buxton did look a spot uncomfortable arsenic helium got up and started walking backmost to the dugout. He was past replaced by rookie Kyler Fedko, and did not return.
Buxton has already been dealing with a close hep injury, and helium missed 4 consecutive games owed to close hep impingement earlier returning connected Saturday. He said it felt "a small sore" aft the game, but that helium was conscionable trying to beryllium smart.
"It's conscionable 1 of those things wherever I don't privation to acceptable myself backmost farther, conscionable successful lawsuit I was trying to propulsion done it oregon immoderate the concern was," Buxton said, via The Associated Press. "I don't privation to enactment the squad successful a atrocious spot by maine trying to spell retired determination and beryllium Superman by trying to play 1 crippled and I extremity up missing a month."
Buxton, who was named a starter successful the All-Star crippled connected Saturday, holds a .271 batting mean with 25 location runs and 45 RBI truthful acold this season.
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Joe Ryan had 9 strikeouts portion throwing 7 scoreless innings connected Sunday astatine Yankee Stadium to assistance pb the Twins to the five-run win. The Twins bushed the Yankees 11-4 connected Saturday, too, and person present won their archetypal bid astatine Yankee Stadium since 2014. The triumph connected Sunday pushed them to 44-47 connected the season. They beryllium successful 3rd successful the AL Central standings, conscionable 3.5 games retired of first.
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