Girardi confirmed that Teixeira (right wrist) hit off a tee and took soft toss in the batting cage.
He retreats to an indoor batting cage, where every night, he prepares for an opportunity that may never come.
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Teixeira blamed his injury on "overuse, " and said he would cut back on his work load in the batting cage going forward.
Also, Teixeira has taken soft toss and tee swings in the batting cage for three days and reported no problem with his wrist.
The shortstop fielded 41 grounders hit directly at him near the left-field fence, hit off a tee in a batting cage and played catch.
Arriving early to spring training is as much about perception as it is about a few extra grounders and swings in the batting cage.
When the Diamondbacks left the field a few minutes later, some field crew members rolled the batting cage out of the way while others starting pulling the tarp.
Instead, if you whiff, it will serve as the impetus to spend extra time in the batting cage, practice your swing, and attend to the need to keep your eye on the ball.
After the longtime .300 hitter saw his average fall into the .240's this past season, he spent the winter working hard in the batting cage and re-learning how to hit the ball to the opposite field.
Second baseman Robinson Cano was back on the field with the Yankees after leading the Dominican Republic to the championship of the World Baseball Classic and Lopez greeted him with a big hug near the batting cage.
When a ball is pitched to the robot, an accelerometer at the back of a batting cage records information about the flight of the ball, including its speed, and this data is relayed back to a machine that holds the GPU-powered brain.
Word out of spring training is that after an infielder disintegrated into a cloud of dust while in the batting cage, the coaching staff had to sweep what was left of him into a pan and hope the trainers could figure out what to do.
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New York 1B Mark Teixeira (wrist) hit several long homers on curveballs off a pitching machine at the Yankees' minor league complex in Tampa, Fla. 3B Alex Rodriguez, coming back from hip surgery in January, is hitting off a tee and swinging at soft toss flips in a batting cage as he wraps up his second week of baseball activities.
Doc was at Citi Field for this game and gave Nationals manager Davey Johnson the Mets' skipper back then a big hug behind the cage during batting practice.
Girardi said OF Curtis Granderson (broken right forearm) took 15 swings of batting practice for the first time in a cage at the team's complex in nearby Tampa.
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