Yankees' Masahiro Tanaka Diagnosed with Tender Concussion After Being Hit by Liner

Adam Hunger/Associated Press

Recent York Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone stated pitcher Masahiro Tanaka suffered a light concussion Saturday after he was hit in the head by a Giancarlo Stanton line drive, per Bryan Hoch of MLB.com.

Boone stated Tanaka was not exhibiting any symptoms and was in glorious spirits.

YES Network @YESNetwork

Masahiro Tanaka was abet in camp and “in in actuality glorious spirits” on Sunday, Aaron Boone tells the media.

FULL INTERVIEW: https://t.co/5OGzaAijtM https://t.co/ytnwadRbUg

Bryan Hoch @BryanHoch

James Paxton stated the Giancarlo Stanton liner that hit Masahiro Tanaka had an exit velo of 112 mph.

Bryan Hoch @BryanHoch

Brett Gardner stated that Masahiro Tanaka was “walking around acting appreciate his stylish self” at Yankee Stadium on the present time. “I’m hoping that he’s in the sure.”

“He went through a battery of tests on the health center; every little thing checked out well,” Boone stated Saturday, per Marly Rivera of ESPN. “He had a CT scan, and it’s destructive.”

Tanaka furthermore tweeted Saturday evening that he was feeling OK:

????/MASAHIRO TANAKA @t_masahiro18

I treasure your total toughen. I in actuality feel it a piece correct now, nonetheless I’m all glorious. Going to resolve a possess a look at to gain abet on the mound ASAP! Thanks all another time for your total encouraging words!

Boone stated Saturday that Stanton was a piece shaken up after the incident:

“Rather of little bit of relief to look him stroll off, and gave the impression to be a minimum of OK straight away, after which we had been in a jam to let Stanton know a shrimp bit bit later that he was doing well. I don’t essentially want to keep up a correspondence for G [Giancarlo], nonetheless he appeared to address it to boot as might even’ve been anticipated. Any time you look that on a baseball self-discipline, after which add a layer that it is a teammate—that stops you for your tracks and likewise you hope for the absolute top. So that is a form of exact wretched provoking moments that occurs each and each in most cases in our game.”

Tanaka, 31, accomplished the 2019 season 11-9 with a 4.45 ERA, 1.24 WHIP and 149 strikeouts in 182 innings (31 starts). He was one of many few excellent Yankees to protect faraway from time on the injured list for the length of the team’s effort-riddled marketing campaign.

Nonetheless, these Yankees went 103-59 and reached the ALCS, where they lost to the Houston Astros in six video games.

Expectations live sky excessive for the 2020 Yankees, even in a delayed and shortened season. Tanaka stays a in actuality crucial piece of the team’s pitching workers, becoming a member of Gerrit Cole and James Paxton atop the rotation.