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\n\n \n\n\"I just think the timing is getting better,\" Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. \"He does a really good job of creating ground force, in my eyes. I think he's staying in the ground really well, which is something that allows him to hit for the power he does. I feel like his last three or four games, the at-bat quality has started to happen.\"\n\nVoit's importance to the Yankees' postseason hopes could be impacted by the injury to Encarnacion, who felt tightness in his left oblique on a first inning swing. Encarnacion remained in the game, slugging a two-run shot in the third inning, but he was later lifted for a pinch-hitter.
\n\n \n\n\"We've got too much at stake right now and too great of a team to start at any time feeling sorry for ourselves,\" Boone said. \"Everyone in that room is capable of doing really special things, and that doesn't change. Frankly, I would expect Edwin to be part of that moving forward, too.\"\n\nThe continued injury issues that have dogged the Yankees all season extended to pitcher
\n\n \n\nHapp said that the tendinitis has been bothering him for \"three to five starts,\" which coincides with his best stretch of the season. Happ carried a scoreless innings streak into Thursday's start that was snapped at 19 1/3 frames by Dawel Lugo's two-run homer in the fifth.\n\n\"\\[Pitching\\] was something I wanted to do,\" Happ said. \"We all talked through it. I voiced my opinion. The fact I've been able to go out there and get some results helped. It's something I have had in the past. I feel like I can manage it. Hopefully, we can just help knock it down a little bit.\"
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