11:36pm: Following the game, Joe Girardi told reporters McCann had a cramp in his foot and it moved up into his calf, so they pulled him from the game. They won’t know anything more until tomorrow.
11:26pm: Brian McCann exited tonight’s game with an apparent right leg injury in the eighth inning. Replays showed him grabbing at his right calf and stretching his right foot, though he stayed in the game to finish the top of the eighth and bat in the bottom of the eighth as well. Joe Girardi and trainer Steve Donahue did come out to check on him.
McCann, 31, has been remarkably durable throughout his career by catcher standards. He had shoulder trouble from 2012-13 and the typical slate of day-to-day ailments associated with the position, but he never did miss time with any sort of right calf or foot injury. Of course, I’m not even sure that’s the problem. I’m guessing based on the replays.
The Yankees have not yet provided any update on McCann and we might not hear anything worthwhile until tomorrow. I’m president of the John Ryan Murphy fan club, but losing McCann would be a pretty big blow. Losing the starting catcher always is. Hopefully it was just a cramp or something else minor. We’ll find out soon enough.
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