On Tuesday, Derek Jeter left open the possibility he wouldn't play at Fenway Park this weekend. On Wednesday, Jeter didn't commit to participating in the three-game series against the Red Sox.
And manager Joe Girardi did the same, which increases the chances Thursday night's game against the Orioles will be the last of Jeter's Hall of Fame career.
"We just lost, man. Respect the fact that we just lost, we are not going to the playoffs. I can't think about Boston right now,'' Jeter said following a 9-5 loss to the Orioles Wednesday. "Right now I am disappointed, I can't tell you about Boston because I am not thinking about Boston.''
Asked if he discussed with Jeter what his plans are for the weekend, Girardi said he hadn't and would hope to chat with the shortstop sometime Thursday which is expected to be a very hectic day.
"I will try to get his ear, talk to him and see how he wants it to go,'' Girardi said.
As he did last year with Mariano Rivera, Girardi said he is going to leave the decision up to Jeter with the Yankees eliminated from the wild-card chase.
"I will leave that up to him, very similar with what I did for Mo,'' Girardi said of Jeter making the call to play or watch. "In my mind, I really thought Mo would want to play an inning in center field and it never happened. I will leave it up to Derek, I don't see why I would do it any different.''
Rivera opted not to pitch in any of the three final games in Houston last season.
The job of managing an aging superstar isn't easy and Girardi acknowledged that any move a manager makes — moving Jeter, 40, out of the No. 2 spot for instance — involves more than the player.
"I think sometimes people underestimate the things you do as a manager, how it affects the whole club,'' said Girardi, who never moved Jeter out of the second spot in the batting order. "There is a ripple effect in everything you do. You have to make sure they are together and you aren't putting the clubhouse in a bad place. The strength of the team is as a whole, not an individual.''
Girardi said he understood the attention on Jeter because of who he is, but mentioned Jeter was not the only Yankee to swing a dead bat at times this season.
"He had a slow April, pretty good May, pretty good June, pretty good July,'' Girardi said. "We had a lot of guys struggle in August and a lot of guys struggle in September. Look at our numbers in September and what a lot of the guys have done. You can move guys around. You can move a guy up who is hitting .200, it's replacing a guy who is hitting .220. Collectively as a group we have not hit as much as we thought we would.''
The Yankees are 0-for-2 attempting to get iconic players a World Series championship send-off.
"We wanted to take Mo out last year as a winner. We wanted to take Derek out as a winner but the fact is that very few players get to do that,'' Mark Teixeira said. "That's very tough to do. We tried our best.''
Through three innings, Shane Greene appeared to be on the way to a solid outing in his final appearance of the season. He retired the first seven O's and then left the bases loaded in the third by getting Adam Jones on a grounder to the left side.
But working in the fourth with a 3-0 lead thanks to an RBI double by Teixeira in the first, Stephen Drew's solo homer in the second and Chase Headley's solo blast in the third, Greene came apart.
Singles by Nelson Cruz and Steve Clevenger started the six-run fourth before Kelly Johnson drew a four-pitch, one-out walk to load the bases for Ryan Flaherty. His double to right scored two and after Caleb Joseph struck out, Nick Markakis' single to right plated two. David Lough's triple made it 5-3 and Jones' bunt single scored Lough for a three-run Orioles lead.
In his 14th big league start Greene gave up six runs, seven hits, walked three and fanned five. He finished 5-4 with a 3.78 ERA and certainly showed enough to be in the mix for a rotation spot when spring training opens in February.
The Yankees are 5-13 against the Orioles this year and have lost 11 of the last 14.
Outfielder Eury Perez entered Wednesday's game in the eighth inning and was the 58th player used by the Yankees this season, extending the franchise record.
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