Yankees\u2019 6-1 win over the Red Sox<\/a> in The Bronx.<\/p>\nWells is set to undergo an MRI on Monday to try to rule out anything more serious going on \u2014 particularly in his neck \u2014 though he tested negative for a concussion Saturday.<\/p>\n
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Austin Wells reacts after striking out during the Yankees\u2019 May 20 game against the Blue Jays. Corey Sipkin for the NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cIn my mind, it\u2019s just the cumulative buildup over the last couple weeks, month, whatever it is,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen you\u2019re in it every day, you don\u2019t really realize, but being out of it today, I felt better today already.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wells, who has struggled badly at the plate for most of the season, said getting beat up behind the plate is \u201cpart of the position, honestly.\u201d <\/p>\n
But he decided to use a hockey mask for Friday\u2019s game \u2014 on the advice of another catcher he spoke to who had also gotten banged up \u2014 which he said felt sturdier. <\/p>\n
He plans to keep using it once he returns.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhatever was going on this year wasn\u2019t really working, so try everything,\u201d Wells said.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, Ali S\u00e1nchez made his Yankees debut behind the plate Sunday, going 0-for-2 before being pinch hit for by Spencer Jones in the seventh inning. <\/p>\n
Aaron Boone said that J.C. Escarra is likely to start two of the next three games against the Guardians, but the manager is treating the position day to day.<\/p>\n
Boone said it is \u201cpossible\u201d that Jasson Dom\u00ednguez (AC joint sprain) could rejoin the Yankees on their upcoming road trip, as the outfielder played a second rehab game Sunday and is expected to need at least a few more early this week.<\/p>\n
Dom\u00ednguez started in left field Sunday for Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre, though the Yankees\u2019 need is in right field with Aaron Judge expected to miss two-plus months with a stress fracture in his right first rib.<\/p>\n
The Yankees may just move Cody Bellinger to right once Dom\u00ednguez returns, though Bellinger has been the best defensive left fielder in the majors this season, which is part of the reason why they have at least kicked around the idea of Dom\u00ednguez playing right field (which he has for one game in his entire pro career).<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll see how that unfolds,\u201d Boone said. \u201cIt would be kind of tough, just because we\u2019ve poured so much into Jasson and committing to left field. Little bit of a challenge. But it is something we\u2019ve talked about.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Boone was noncommittal on whether Dom\u00ednguez would get any right field action during his rehab assignment.<\/p>\n
Max Fried is set to undergo his next round of imaging later this week to determine whether he can advance to throwing from the mound. <\/p>\n
For now, the left-hander has been playing catch on flat ground, expected to get out to 120 feet this week as he tries to work back from a bone bruise in his left elbow.<\/p>\n
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\u201cHe\u2019s responded pretty well to everything,\u201d Boone said.<\/p>\n
Anthony Seigler, the Yankees\u2019 first-round pick in 2018, started at second base Sunday for the Red Sox.<\/p>\n
Their 27th-round pick that year, Mickey Gasper, was starting at catcher for the Red Sox.<\/p>\n
The only Yankees pick from that draft who is currently in the organization is Wells, their 35th-round pick who did not sign out of high school. <\/p>\n
They drafted him again two years later in the first round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin Wells is not exactly sure when it all began, or that there was any one incident that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35512,20,9,11,10,321,319],"class_list":["post-258849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-austin-wells","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}