Nick Burdi, who has not allowed a run in 6 ¹/₃ innings and has struck out eight, hit the 15-day injured list (retroactive to Wednesday) with right hip inflammation.
The righty reliever felt the discomfort on the final pitch of his outing Tuesday, manager Aaron Boone said before the Yankees beat the Rays, 5-3.
Boone termed the inflammation as “fairly minor,” but the Yankees will be careful with Burdi, whose injury history is lengthy: The 31-year-old is one of three known pitchers to make it back to the majors after two Tommy John surgeries and one procedure for thoracic outlet syndrome.
“The biggest thing is [doctors] don’t want him compensating and then it leading into being an arm injury,” said Boone, who anticipated Burdi only resting a few days before beginning to build up again.
Clarke Schmidt allowed one run (on a Richie Palacios home run in the sixth) on seven hits without a walk in 5 ¹/₃ innings.
Perhaps as importantly, Schmidt reached 100 pitches (finishing at 102) in an outing for the first time in 71 career major league games.
“I loved every bit of that,” said Schmidt, who maxed out at 99 pitches last season and who lowered his 2024 ERA to 3.15. “I love it. I want to be out there as long as I possibly can. I know there’s facets of my game that I’m continuing to work on. I think last year was [facing] lefties. This year it’s continuing to go deeper in games.”
Dennis Santana, who pitched 1 ²/₃ strong innings, earned his first win as a Yankee.
With the roster spot vacated by Burdi, the Yankees called up Cody Morris from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
The righty had pitched at least two innings in each minor league appearance and could be used for length out of the bullpen.
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