Manager Joe Girardi's original lineup yesterday had Nick Swisher batting fifth and playing right field. Yet when Swisher's left knee problem didn't allow him to run well he was scratched from the Yankees' 7-5 victory.
Marcus Thames went from designated hitter to right and nfl throwback jerseys
Lance Berkman was inserted as the DH. It was Thames' sixth start in right and 21st in the outfield. The last time Thames started a game in the outfield was July 7 at Oakland in left.
Had Austin Kearns not suffered a slightly bruised thumb working in the cage yesterday, he would have played right and Thames remained in the DH spot.
Thames launched a tworun, two-out homer in the seventh that snapped a 5-5 tie off right-hander Jason Frasor.
"It's not the right day. It feels fine walking around but once I start running it hurts," said Swisher, who missed a second straight game after being removed from Thursday's game. "Hopefully, it will get better overnight and I will be ready [today]."
After the game Swisher said the second straight day of treatment made the knee feel better.
Swisher fouled a ball off the knee Aug. 24 and didn't play the following night. He started the next seven games.
"When I try and turn it on," Swisher said when asked when he feels it. "We got a big schedule ahead. I want to make sure I am 100 percent."
Swisher, who is hitting .295 with 25 homers and 80 RBIs, hadn't undergone tests on the hinge.
"You get ready and amped up to play," Swisher said of preparing to play and then not. "I thought today was the day, but it's not." Swisher missed a chance to face lefty Marc Rzepczynski, against whom he was 4-for-6.
*** Mired in a 3-for-34 (.088) slump, Derek Jeter worked Indianapolis Colts jersey
early in the batting cage where he participated in a flip drill with hitting coach Kevin Long.
Jeter returned to the lineup after having Friday off and doubled in a run in the three-run third.
He went 1-for-4 with a walk.
*** Joba Chamberlain was wearing a UCLA football jersey in the clubhouse yesterday with No. 87 on the back below HARKEY. Yankees' bullpen coach Mike Harkey's son, Cory, wears that number for the Bruins. He is a tight end.
Chamberlain worked out of a two-on, no-out jam in the seventh by fanning MLB home run leader Jose Bautista (43) on a 3-2 slider that was off the plate but called a strike by umpire Ed Hickox and getting Vernon Wells to bounce into an inning-ending double play.
Bautista was quickly ejected for arguing balls and strikes.
"I thought it was a good pitch, it was where we were going for," said Chamberlain, who hasn't given up a run in 15 of his last 17 games. "We were trying to get him off the fastball because he is a pretty good fastball hitter."
*** Jets linebacker Jason Taylor spent time on the field talking to Alex Rodriguez after A-Rod worked out in the morning. Taylor then entered the Yankees' clubhouse with Rodriguez.
*** Robinson Cano's bases-loaded, two-run single in the third lifted his average with three runners on base to .600 (9-for-15). He has 23 RBIs in those 15 at-bats.
ON DECK
Today - 1:10 p.m., YES, WCBS (880 AM) LHP Brett Cecil (117, 3.74) vs. RHP Phil Hughes (16-6, 4.10)
BLUE JAYS AT YANKEES
YANKEES: Hughes has struggled down the stretch in his first year as a fulltime starter in the Dallas Cowboys jersey
Yankees rotation. He allowed five runs on six hits in 3.2 innings Aug. 25 against the Blue Jays, before walking five guys in five innings in a win over Oakland Tuesday.
BLUE JAYS: Cecil has been strong over the course of his last several starts, with quality starts in eight of his last 10 outings. He's allowed one run and gone at least six innings in his three starts against the Yankees this year.
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