It’s Greg Bird’s foot. It’s Neil Walker’s bat. It’s Tyler Austin’s cleat, and then his anger, and then his charge toward the mound.
For a second straight year, the pileup at first base has been grisly for the Yankees, their Plans A, B and C all going wrong in some way. And for a second straight year, Mike Ford is thinking the same thing.
“I’m here, I’m ready, I hope it happens soon,” the Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre first baseman said last week.