The Yankees are 8 ½ games back in the AL East and have Johnny Damon, Hideki Matsui and others on the DL. Hank Steinbrenner, though, doesn't quite believe the season is shot just yet.
"With what we've got in place right now," Steinbrenner told the AP last night, "we still should be able to make a run."
Easier said than done perhaps, as even Steinbrenner bemoaned the Yankees' injury fortunes this year. He instructed fans, "Don't get discouraged. Injuries do happen."
Then Steinbrenner said as far as he could recall, this has been the Yankees' worst injury season ever.
"We have been decimated by injuries," he said. "I don't remember a year this bad as far as injuries. It's had a huge effect. It really has. Nobody wants to make excuses, but it's reality.
"In any sport, I don't care what it is. Soccer, baseball, basketball, football, there's only two things that come under the heading of luck. Injuries and bad officiating," Steinbrenner said. "You just hope you don't get the injuries, and we've had them this year."
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