Yankees Jazz Chisholm Jr. frustrated with nagging injury issues: I was very upset

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— Jazz Chisholm Jr.appears to have dodged another bullet on the injury front, but the mounting number of nagging issues is giving him a headache.The Yankees third baseman was out of Thursday’s lineup against the Royals after leaving Wednesday’s game in the fifth inning with left groin tightness.

He took pregame grounders at third base and thought he would be available off the bench for the 1-0 win, but the training staff had him as “emergency only,” manager Aaron Boone said after the game.“I would expect him to either start or at least be a player off the bench [on Friday],” Boone said.Still, Chisholm believes that coming out of the game when he did Wednesday allowed him to avoid a more serious injury.But it was the second straight game he had to leave early — Tuesday’s was less avoidable as he had neck tightness from colliding with Maikel Garcia’s knee on a dive into third base — after missing all of May with an oblique strain.Chisholm has landed on the injured list at least once in each of his past five seasons after breaking into the big leagues in 2020.“I was very upset [Wednesday],” Chisholm said.“That’s [five] seasons in a row, more than [five] injuries in the last [five] seasons.

So it kind of sucks, and it’s frustrating.And I feel like I do everything the right way.

I have trainers on and off the field.I get massages on and off the field.

Healthy diet, chef, everything you can possibly do off the field, I feel like I do.“So it kind of gets frustrating, especially when you think you’ve prepared so well for a game and you go in there feeling good, feeling loose and something like that happens.

But it’s part of it.”“So it’s just a little bit frustrating when you keep getting hurt when you feel like you’re doing everything in your power to stay on the fie...