Austin Hays vowed to play again before the All-Star break, a bruised left hip keeping him out of the lineup since Sunday.
The day he learned that he’d been selected to his first All-Star team.
Hays is on the bench again tonight, marked absent hours after he found out that he’s starting for the American League.
Baseball life is full of surprises for Hays, who said yesterday that the good news about his selection was “kind of short-lived” following his collision with Twins first baseman Donovan Solano. A knee to the hip bringing pain after his euphoria. The roller coaster that he didn’t want to ride.
He’s taking batting practice and working out, as he did yesterday in New York, and starting Tuesday night at T-Mobile Park due to injuries to Aaron Judge and Mike Trout.
