NEW YORK -- Mark Teixeira told the Yankees that he should be available off the bench as a pinch-hitter on Monday, which is a much better scenario than what the slugger initially feared when he sustained a deep bone bruise in his right leg on a foul ball last week.
"I thought I broke my leg when I did it, so this is really good compared to what I thought happened," Teixeira said before the Yanks' game against the Astros. "Flashes of Jermaine Dye."
Dye, while with the A's, broke his left leg after hitting a foul ball just below his left knee during Game 4 of the 2001 American League Division Series against the Yankees.