SEATTLE — One other Yankees romp turned bitter within the blink of a watch, with third baseman Oswaldo Cabrera struggling a critical left leg damage within the high of the ninth inning on Monday evening throughout the workforce’s 11-5 victory over the Mariners at T-Cell Park.
“I feel everybody understands it was a reasonably critical state of affairs,” supervisor Aaron Boone mentioned. “Simply praying for our man Cabby tonight and hoping for the most effective, and trusting he’s in good palms as he goes by the evening right here. Clearly, a terrific sport in quite a lot of methods, however quite a lot of guys feeling for his or her teammate, who’s the most effective of the most effective of them.”
Cabrera tagged up from third base on an Aaron Decide sacrifice fly to proper discipline with the bases loaded and one out. As Leody Taveras’ throw got here residence, Cabrera ran vast to keep away from Cal Raleigh’s tag on the plate. Cabrera beat the throw and the tag, however overran the plate by a number of steps. As he tried to cease, his left ankle buckled beneath his momentum.
Cabrera was capable of stumble again and tag residence plate together with his hand however stayed on the bottom after the play and didn’t transfer because the coaching workers rushed out to test on him.
After a quick time, the center-field gate at T-Cell Park opened to permit the cart to come back out, nevertheless it made its manner solely to the right-field foul pole earlier than turning again and exiting. A couple of minutes later, as gamers from each groups stood in silence on the sector, an ambulance got here out and made its solution to residence plate.
“It’s undoubtedly a type of unlucky issues that pops up that lends perspective to what we’re doing,” Boone mentioned. “We’re enjoying a sport. You get so consumed with it on a regular basis and the ups and downs of it, and one thing like that occurs for somebody you’re feeling so good about. … It smacks you with that perspective that we attempt to speak about and have on a regular basis. On the finish of the day, it’s a sport.”
The coaching workers put a brace on Cabrera’s leg and set him up on a gurney as teammates — together with Decide — huddled round residence plate and the gang in Seattle turned silent.
“For him to get harm on a play like that, it speaks tons to what kind of man he’s,” Decide mentioned. “It’s a sport the place we’ve acquired somewhat little bit of a lead, and he’s nonetheless combating to the final out. Everybody in right here feels horrible, simply because we all know how a lot he works, how laborious he works, how a lot he loves and cares about all people on this room, the best way he would deal with each sport, and daily he acquired to be right here as such a blessing.”
After being loaded onto the gurney, Cabrera left within the ambulance — together with head coach Tim Lentych — out of the gate in middle discipline, to be taken to the hospital.
Simply earlier than he left, Cabrera had one query for his captain.
“Earlier than he acquired on [the gurney], he mentioned, ‘Judgy, did I rating?’ and Decide mentioned, ‘Yeah,’” Boone mentioned. “That made him smile.”
Cabrera, in his fourth season within the Majors, has been getting probably the most constant enjoying time of his profession, beginning 30 of the Yankees’ first 41 video games at third base. In 34 video games, he’s hitting .243 with a .630 OPS, 4 doubles, one residence run and 11 RBIs. He went 1-for-4 on Monday with a stroll.
“He loves being a Yankee; he wears this jersey with pleasure,” Decide mentioned. “This can be a powerful one, particularly for a man who’s grinded his complete life and at last acquired the chance to be our on a regular basis man and has been excelling at it.”
However past the easy numbers, the 26-year-old — who signed with the Yankees as a 16-year-old out of Guarenas, Venezuela in 2016 and spent 5 seasons within the Minors earlier than making his debut in ’22 — has grow to be one of many foremost figures within the New York clubhouse.
“[Trent Grisham] mentioned one thing after: ‘Cabby does it proper daily,’” Boone mentioned. “Each day. How he prepares to do his job, the form of teammate he’s, the enjoyment he walks on this room with each single day. He’s an instance in so some ways for anybody to look to for the right way to go about dwelling their life.”
Added Grisham, who hit a pair of solo residence runs to spark the Yankees’ offense: “The best way that he cares for different folks, it simply pours out of him. Should you watch him play baseball, you get a style of it. However if you get to know him, it’s a lot deeper than that.”
The Yankees had no additional updates on Cabrera’s situation late Monday evening.
