Yankees’ Masahiro Tanaka Diagnosed with Tender Concussion After Being Hit by Liner
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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.
“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:
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.