The Yankees were on a good little run there, weren’t they? It had been a whole ...
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... THREE days since they’d last put a player on the COVID-19 injured list! Gerrit Cole and Jordan Montgomery appear to be on track to return next week, and while Gary Sanchez and Anthony Rizzo aren’t quite as close, they’re both on the mend as well. So maybe the Yankees could finally vacate the COVID-IL, right? Right?
Wrong.
Reliever Clay Holmes is now joining that quartet on the COVID-IL. He was experiencing COVID-like symptoms, so as a precautionary measure, he was put on the shelf.