NEW YORK -- After three full days without any baseball activity, Mark Teixeira on Friday played catch and did some work in the batting cage for the first time since bruising his right leg on a foul ball Monday.
Teixeira was out of the lineup for the fourth straight day Friday, but he seems to be turning a corner. He addressed the media for the first time since the injury.
"Two days ago, I couldn't walk, so yeah, the first two days were really bad," he said. "The last two days have been really good.