Yankees’ Juan Soto still feeling lingering effects of ‘painful’ hand injury
NY Post
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — As long as Juan Soto does not swing and miss, he does not seem to have an issue with his right hand.
He was mostly successful at that Thursday night, except for one painful-looking whiff.
Soto homered, doubled and drew two walks in the Yankees’ 5-4 loss to the Rays, but also had a swing-and-miss in the seventh inning that forced him to call a timeout to deal with the pain, stemming from the bruised hand he suffered slamming it into the ground on a slide two weeks ago.
“Still painful, but it’s been better [recently],” Soto said after the series finale at Tropicana Field. “I have my days like the first day here, it was really painful, but it got better the next two days.”
Soto, who sat out one game on June 29 because of the hand injurybut has not missed one since, said the medical staff told him it was “nothing serious.”
He has been working with trainers daily, and the expectation is “it’s going to go away by itself” over the coming weeks.
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