For a long time, the door to manager Joe Girardi's office remained closed at Rogers Centre. Across the way, the Yankees were preparing to head out into a Saturday night after a win against the Blue Jays. In Girardi's office, other plans were being made.
CC Sabathia's achy left elbow had turned the day inside out. The discussion began well before Saturday's first pitch, "just trying to decide what we were going to do," Girardi said. "Should we just skip him a start? Should we DL him? What do we do in this instance?"
Girardi, general manager Brian Cashman and the Yankees' staff came to the conclusion that the disabled list was the best place for Sabathia, forcing the Yankees ace lefty to skip two starts. Officially, it's a "low level" of concern, mostly due to a stealth MRI conducted prior to his last start.
