Mark Teixeira believes he will play again this year but, since his right leg throbs when he walks, this late in the season there is a chance that won’t happen.
“In my mind I am playing,’’ Teixeira said Thursday at his locker after leaning a crutch against the wall.
Teixeira is scheduled for an MRI exam and CT-Scan Friday and hopes the bleeding and nerve damage between the knee and ankle has subsided.
“I can’t walk without pain,’’ said the switch-hitting first baseman who fouled a ball off the leg Aug. 17. He missed the next seven games, started one, pinch hit in the next and hasn’t been on the field since Aug.