MINNEAPOLIS — Lou Trivino’s progress from a spring training UCL strain has been halted — with a doctor’s appointment on tap.
The veteran reliever, who had been rehabbing the elbow ligament injury in Tampa, was set to meet with Yankees team doctor Chris Ahmad on Wednesday in New York, after not bouncing back well from a recent live batting practice session.
“Didn’t feel anything in the lives, but the next couple days were not how he should have been feeling,” manager Aaron Boone said Monday before the Yankees fell to the Twins 6-1 at Target Field.
The Yankees had been slowly building Trivino back up after he was initially shut down following one Grapefruit League appearance.
It marked the first arm-related injured list stint of Trivino’s career.
Any kind of setback with a UCL can be worrisome, though Boone said he didn’t want to get ahead of himself before Trivino — under team control through 2024 — met with Ahmad.
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“I mean, it’s not good that he had to get shut down from where he was in a good spot and feeling good,” Boone said. “So we’ll see.”
Harrison Bader (strained oblique) will have his rehab assignment transferred to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on Tuesday, though Boone said Monday the outfielder will still need about 10 more days worth of games before he is ready to come off the IL.
That could put his potential return in play during the Yankees’ series against the Rays on May 5-7.
Luis Severino (strained lat) threw two simulated innings of live batting practice Monday in Tampa and will do so again on Friday, after which he could be ready to start a rehab assignment. … Tommy Kahnle (biceps tendinitis) could throw his first bullpen session by the end of this seven-game road trip. … Jonathan Loaisiga (elbow inflammation) also continued his throwing program Monday and could throw off the mound by this weekend.
After not committing an error through his first 21 games as a big leaguer, Anthony Volpe was charged with an error for a second straight game Monday.
Trying to turn a double play, Volpe threw high to first base, with the ball sailing out of play to allow Max Kepler to take second base.
Kepler came around to score when Jorge Polanco hit a bloop down the left-field line that Oswaldo Cabrera made a sliding attempt at and missed.
The RBI double pushed the Twins’ lead to 5-0.
Aaron Hicks got his second start of the season in center field on Monday, and his first start anywhere since April 18. He went 0-for-4, including getting thrown out trying to bunt for a hit in his first at-bat.
Franchy Cordero had a brutal night, going 0-for-3 with three strikeouts and failing to track down a fly ball to right field that scored another run in the eighth inning.
He is batting 1-for-21 with nine strikeouts over his last eight games.
Boone, a noted Eagles fan, on the Jets landing Aaron Rodgers: “That’s big-time. … What seems like a very talented roster, he would seem to me to be a guy that puts them in that serious title contender kind of teams.”