The hits just keep on coming for the Yankees. Starter Nestor Cortes spent all of June and July on the 60-day IL with a left rotator cuff strain, but looked sharp in his abbreviated return to the rotation on August 5th while firing four innings of one-run ball against the Astros. He was supposed to start again this weekend in Miami, not far from where he grew up. That will not come to pass.
The Yankees just announced that Cortes would head back to the shelf with the very same injury. He will not throw again for a month, putting the rest of his season in jeopardy.