NEW YORK (AP) – Yankees pitcher Luis Cessa released a 31-pitched bullpen on Monday when he returned from a layoff for a positive coronavirus test.
The 28-year-old right-hander doesn’t know how he got it. He in Arizona, where he lives with his friend, and he and his friend tested positive before going to New York to resume training.
Cessa said she had experienced sinus disorders but had no fever in her fight with COVID-19.
While he waited to recover, he worked with gadgets in his garage and acquired a net and for him to a park to play.
“I just tried to stick in shape,” he said.
The second base player, DJ LeMahieu, the other Yankees player covered by positive control of the virus, joined the Yankees and made his showback Sunday. After scoring 0 for 2 and betting 3 innings in the opposite draw to the New York Mets, he returned at the time to the opposite base to Philadelphia on Monday and took off his left th8 at the beginning of the game through Vince Velasquez.
Left-hander James Paxton pitched 8 four pitches in five innings in a simulated game and is expected to start at the time of a game of the season in Washington on Saturday, two days after Gerrit Cole started the first game. Judge Lefties Happ and Jordan are also expected to connect the initial rotation, the maximum probably connected at the time in a corner through the right Masahiro Tanaka after accumulating on their return pass after being hit through a net practice during the Fourth of July practice.
Tanaka is scheduled for batting on Tuesday.
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