Alex Avila started Game 4 of the ALDS on Tuesday despite playing with a sore patella. He went 0-for-3 Tuesday and is now 0-for-12 with six strikeouts in the series. "Minor injuries happen to everybody," Avila said. "Whether I was injured badly or not, I'm not really coming out of the game anyway, so it doesn't matter." Avila hurt his knee when he stepped on Robinson Cano's foot after Alex Rodriguez threw wildly to first on Avila's sacrifice bunt in Game 3. "Just a little twist," Avila said, "and you just deal with it. At this point in the season, I think everybody's dealing with injuries. So nothing major." Avila should be in the lineup for Thursday's elimination game in New York.