Mark Teixeira 1B FA Sun 5/20/12 9:30 AM
Mark Teixeira
1B FA
Mark Teixeira could miss a third straight start Sunday due to his severely inflamed bronchial airways.
"I said, 'You know, we've tried to give you a day off when there's a scheduled day off and you haven't gotten better, so we'll give you a day off and may give you [today] to see if we can knock this bronchial problem out,'" Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. Teixeira has been battling the issue all season, and the team is unsure how to treat it and doesn't know when he'll be 100 percent again. "We've tried everything," Teixeira said. "That's why rest is the last effort here. I've taken more medicine than I'd liked to. I think I'm done with that option. Rest is kind of the final option."