By WFAN.com
Jacoby Ellsbury just can't seem to get going.
Yankees manager Aaron Boone announced Tuesday that the center field is being shut down with "a little hip thing."
Aaron Boone said Jacoby Ellsbury has been shut down with "a little hip thing." Any chance of his being activated Thursday has disappeared. Aaron Hicks is progressing well, still hopeful his DL stint is a short one.
— Sweeny Murti (@YankeesWFAN) April 3, 2018"It's going to cost him a couple days here," Boone said. "Hopefully, it's not a huge setback."
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It's the latest blow to Ellsbury, who was placed on the DL Thursday (retroactive to March 26) as he was working his way back from an oblique injury. The 34-year-old outfielder also contracted the flu during spring training.
Ellsbury was healthy when the Yankees broke camp, but after he only had 14 at-bats this spring, he remained at the team's training facility in Tampa, Florida, to get more work in.
The Yankees are also without Aaron Hicks in center field after he was sent to the 10-day DL last week with a strained right ribcage muscle. Boone said Tuesday that Hicks is ahead of Ellsbury in his recovery.
