TAMPA, Fla. — Yankees first baseman Greg Bird, who has missed most of the last two seasons with injuries, was scratched from an exhibition game on Saturday and examined for discomfort in his right foot.
Bird left the stadium in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., near Orlando, and returned here to Steinbrenner Field, where he was examined by Daniel Murphy, an orthopedic specialist, before leaving to have magnetic resonance imaging and CT scans on his foot. The Yankees hoped to know more about his condition by Saturday night.
It was unclear what was causing Bird’s discomfort or whether it was related to the surgery he had to remove a bone from the same ankle last July.