Yankees pull George Lombard Jr. from game with possible knee injury

But Lombard might have hit a new hurdle during the nightcap of the Yankees' Saturday doubleheader against the Red Sox. During an at-bat against Brayan Bello, he checked his swing but appeared to hurt his knee in the process. To be clear, this is just conjecture on my end, but that area certainly seemed to be causing serious discomfort. Lombard remained in the game to finish his at-bat — remarkably in hindsight, a single to left — and stayed in long enough to play the field and take another trip to the plate.

By the start of the fourth inning, however, the 21-year-old was forced from the game. José Caballero moved to the six and Amed Rosario entered at third base.

Any sort of lower-half injury is alarming, particularly at this point in the season. They can take a little while to recover from, and the postseason begins in exactly one month. The best-case scenario is that Lombard just had cramping of some kind or a different minor ailment.