DETROIT -- Yankees outfielder Cody Bellinger was scratched from Tuesday afternoon’s starting lineup against the Tigers in Detroit.
The reason?
“Food poisoning, we think,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said before the game. “He’s been throwing up all night. Hopefully, he feels a little bit better now. We’ll see if we can get him going and make him somehow available as the game goes. We’ll see how it unfolds.”
Boone said he “was able to get a smile out of him” before the rest of the team took pregame warmups on the field at Comerica Park.
Bellinger “felt a lot better during the game,” Boone said following the club's 5-0 loss, and he would have been available to pinch-hit had the right situation arose.
Bellinger, who was 1-for-4 and scored a run in Monday afternoon’s 6-2 loss to the Tigers, is batting .233 with one homer and six RBIs in 30 at-bats to begin his first season with the Bombers.
Boone was asked for the cause of Bellinger’s food poisoning.
“I think he had some wings, maybe,” said Boone, noting that he didn’t believe they had been consumed in Detroit. The Yankees came to Detroit Sunday night after a series in Pittsburgh with the Pirates.
Switch-hitting rookie Jasson Domínguez started in left for New York on Tuesday.
LeMahieu on comeback trail
Infielder DJ LeMahieu, who was placed on the 10-day injured list on March 26 -- retroactive to March 24 -- with a left calf strain, told MLB.com he’s 100 percent ready for a rehab assignment this weekend.
“I’ll go to either Double-A or Triple-A -- they’re both home,” said LeMahieu of the Minor League Somerset Patriots in New Jersey and Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders in Pennsylvania, respectively. “I feel really good, but I didn’t have Spring Training.”