TAMPA – Luke Voit caused a brief scare in the first half of the Yankees’ 6-1 win over the Phillies at BayCare Ballpark in Clearwater, Florida. on the fly by Clint Frazier to the left, but was thrown out by Andrew McCutchen. He seemed to walk cautiously off the field, but stayed in the game and looked good as he ran out a ground ball later in the game.
“He feels great,” Aaron Boone said. Not a very clever tag-up of the second. He just wanted to test it and felt like he was feeling good and said he was feeling good [afterwards]Hopefully we have a better decision in the regular season. “
Voit will not play against the Tigers on a scheduled day off on Friday.
While Giancarlo Stanton looked fine, Boone said there were no plans yet to try him in the outfield – though he didn’t rule out the possibility.
“I have nothing on the schedule,” said the manager. “We want him to find his workload and routine on the board.”
Jay Bruce has now started playing games at first base, left field and right field and impressed Boone everywhere.
“At this point we see everything we could have hoped for,” Boone said. [also] with the defensive versatility and what we think is the ability to play first. “