CHICAGO — In about 10 days, Derek Jeter is expected to return from the disabled list, at which point Eduardo Nunez will again assume his role of dutiful understudy. This, he knows, is not some Wally Pipp situation. “We’ll go back to the same way,” Nunez said with a laugh.
His way has been paved in gold and littered with potholes, with signs reading,
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In the sixth inning Saturday with the Yankees leading by a run,
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“Keep working hard,” Nunez said. “Just think about that.”
It is all part of the process, the Yankees believe, and one they are eager to see through. Nunez’s work ethic has impressed them as much as his energy, and they will figure out how to get him at-bats after Jeter comes back. Nunez said that he was gradually growing more comfortable, and that filling in for Jeter has been made easier by having been with the team all season. He said it might have been harder, the pressure greater,
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“I think for a young player, your biggest fear is they try to do too much, and when you have some success, you can put that behind you,” Manager Joe Girardi said. “You don’t feel you have to prove you belong.”
Girardi tolerates physical errors much more than mental mistakes, calling them part of the game. Nunez has worked with the fielding instructor Mick Kelleher at improving his throwing technique and learning how to make throws from different arm angles. The Yankees consider Nunez part of their long-term plans, but reducing his error totals — he has committed eight (seven at shortstop) in only 17 games — is imperative.
“Yes,
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GIRARDI’S EARLY START Joe Girardi awoke at 5:30 a.m. Sunday to make a special 2-hour-10-minute drive down Interstate 55. For the first time in four years, Girardi was able to spend Father’s Day with his dad, Jerry, 80, who is in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s disease and lives in a nursing home outside Peoria,
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STRONG OUTING FOR HUGHES Phil Hughes’s progression from right-shoulder inflammation continued Sunday, when,
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