TAMPA — Jacoby Ellsbury took a full round of batting practice for 15 minutes before Thursday night’s 6-2 loss to the Rays but wasn’t in the starting lineup.
He also won’t make the trip to Sarasota for Friday’s game against the Orioles.
“It won’t be [Friday], maybe Saturday,” Joe Girardi said of Ellsbury, who hasn’t played since last Saturday, when he was drilled on the right wrist by a pitch. “We just feel he could use another day of BP, and he isn’t quite there yet.”
According to Girardi, Ellsbury informed the club he wasn’t ready to play Thursday.