Rizzo won’t need surgery, out at least 8 weeks
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Jorge Castillo, ESPN Staff Writer
New York Yankees first baseman Anthony Rizzo is expected to miss at least eight weeks after fracturing his right forearm, it was announced Tuesday.
Rizzo, who was placed on the injured list, said he will go “probably four or five weeks” without baseball activities. He would then need to ramp up and likely go on rehab assignment before rejoining the Yankees in August.
He confirmed he will not need surgery and fully expects to return this season.
“I’ve never gone through this,” Rizzo said. “This is my first fracture, bone break, so I assume I will heal fast with the treatment we have, but we’ll see how it feels.”
Rizzo, 34, suffered the injury — a fracture to the radial neck of his right arm — after colliding with Boston Red Sox pitcher Brennan Bernardino while running down the first-base line during Sunday’s game. Rizzo landed on his right arm and immediately grabbed his right wrist.
He said he initially thought he injured his wrist, but the pain moved up towards his elbow later.
The setback comes after Rizzo missed the final two months of last season after playing through most of the year with post-concussion syndrome. He is batting .223 with eight home runs and a .630 OPS in 70 games this season.
“It’s not ideal, but it’s how you look at it, right?” Rizzo said. “This is part of it. The team’s in a great position. Obviously, there’s nothing better than playing baseball. It’s what we love to do. But now it’s just about focusing on getting better and coming back and helping.”
The Yankees called up prospect Ben Rice to replace Rizzo on his roster. Drafted as a catcher out of Dartmouth in 2021, Rice has also started 52 games at first base in his minor league career. He will start at first base and bat sixth in the Yankees’ series opener against the Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday.
The Yankees also placed right-handed pitchers Ian Hamilton (right lat strain) and Cody Poteet (right triceps strain) on the 15-day injured list. Left-handed relievers Clayton Andrews and Anthony Misiewicz were called up to replace them on the roster.
New York will have to make more moves Wednesday — to both the active and the 40-man rosters — when they activate Gerrit Cole from the 60-day injured list to make his season debut.
Hamilton suffered a “moderate grade” strain and won’t throw a baseball for three to four weeks, according to a team spokesperson. He was scheduled to receive a PRP injection Tuesday night.
Yankees bench coach Brad Ausmus, speaking to reporters pregame in manager Aaron Boone’s place, said Hamilton suffered the injury during Sunday’s game. Ausmus said Hamilton dealt with “much more mild version” of the injury earlier in the season.
Hamilton, 29, gave up eight runs (seven earned) in four innings over his past four appearances after yielding eight earned runs in 25⅔ innings over his first 23 outings.
Poteet suffered a “low grade” strain and will be shut down for one to two weeks, a team spokesperson said. Poteet, 29, made his Yankees debut as a spot starter in April and returned to the Yankees at the beginning of June to replace the injured Clarke Schmidt (right lat strain) in the rotation. The right-hander recorded a 2.14 ERA in 21 innings across four starts.
Schmidt, meanwhile, was shifted to the 60-day injured list and won’t be eligible to return until July 26.
Boone was not with the team Tuesday afternoon so he could attend his son’s high school graduation. The team expected him to join the club sometime during the game Tuesday night.
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Adam Rittenberg
BOULDER, Colo. — Colorado coach Deion Sanders said he feels “healthy and vibrant” after returning to the field for preseason practices after undergoing surgery to remove his bladder after a cancerous tumor was found.
Sanders, 57, said he has been walking at least a mile around campus following Colorado’s practices, which began last week. He was away from the team for the late spring and early summer following the surgery in May. Dr. Janet Kukreja, director of urological oncology at University of Colorado Cancer Center, said July 30 that Sanders, who lost about 25 pounds during his recovery, is “cured of cancer.”
“I’m healthy, I’m vibrant, I’m my old self,” Sanders said. “I’m loving life right now. I’m trying my best to live to the fullest, considering what transpired.”
Sanders credited Colorado’s assistant coaches and support staff for overseeing the program during his absence. The Pro Football Hall of Famer enters his third season as Buffaloes coach this fall.
“They’ve given me tremendous comfort,” Sanders said. “I never had to call 100 times and check on the house, because I felt like the house is going to be OK. That’s why you try your best to hire correct, so you don’t have to check on the house night and day. They did a good job, especially strength and conditioning.”
Colorado improved from four to nine wins in Sanders’ second season, but the team loses Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter, the No. 2 pick in April’s NFL draft, as well as record-setting quarterback Shedeur Sanders, the son of Deion Sanders. The Buffaloes have an influx of new players, including quarterbacks Kaidon Salter and Julian “Ju Ju” Lewis, who are competing for the starting job, as well as new staff members such as Pro Football Hall of Fame running back Marshall Faulk, who is coaching the Buffaloes’ running backs.
Despite the changes and his own health challenges, Deion Sanders expects Colorado to continue ascending. The Buffaloes open the season Aug. 29 when they host Georgia Tech.
“The next phase is we’re going to win differently, but we’re going to win,” Sanders said. “I don’t know if it’s going to be the Hail Mary’s at the end of the game, but it’s going to be hell during the game, because we want to be physical and we want to run the heck out of the football.”
Sanders said it will feel “a little weird, a little strange” to not be coaching Shedeur when the quarterback starts his first NFL preseason game for the Cleveland Browns on Friday night at Carolina. Deion Sanders said he and Shedeur had spoken several times Friday morning. Despite being projected as a top quarterback in the draft, Shedeur Sanders fell to the fifth round.
“A lot of people are approaching it like a preseason game, he’s approaching like a game, and that’s how he’s always approached everything, to prepare and approach it like this is it,” Deion Sanders said. “He’s thankful and appreciative of the opportunity. He don’t get covered in, you know, all the rhetoric in the media.
“Some of the stuff is just ignorant. Some of it is really adolescent, he far surpasses that, and I can’t wait to see him play.”
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Adam Rittenberg
LSU starting quarterback Garrett Nussmeier aggravated the patellar tendinitis he has been dealing with in his knee but will not miss any significant time, coach Brian Kelly said Friday.
Kelly dropped in ahead of a news conference Friday with offensive coordinator Joe Sloan to tell reporters that Nussmeier did not suffer a severe knee injury or even a new one. According to Kelly, Nussmeier has chronic tendinitis in his knee and “probably just planted the wrong way” during Wednesday’s practice.
Nussmeier ranked fifth nationally in passing yards (4,052) last season, his first as LSU’s starter, and projects as an NFL first-round draft pick in 2026.
“It’s not torn, there’s no fraying, there’s none of that,” Kelly said. “This is preexisting. … There’s nothing to really see on film with it, but it pissed it off. He aggravated it a little bit, but he’s good to go.”
Kelly said Nussmeier’s injury ranks 1.5 out of 10 in terms of severity. Asked whether it’s the right or left knee, Kelly said he didn’t know, adding, “It’s not a serious injury. Guys are dealing with tendinitis virtually every day in life.”
LSU opens the season Aug. 30 at Clemson.
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