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Teixeira has no second thoughts on retiring
- Updated: September 29, 2016
NEW YORK — There are no second thoughts for Mark Teixeira as he rides out the final regular-season homestand of his career. If the Yankees’ season ends after Sunday’s game No. 162, he will be at peace, knowing that the aches have become too much to manage for another year.
“No, my body’s definitely telling me it’s time,” Teixeira said.
Teixeira was not in the Yankees’ starting lineup on Thursday, one day after he hit the first regular-season walk-off home run of his career, a grand slam off Joe Kelly that lifted New York to a 5-3 victory over the Red Sox.
Manager Joe Girardi said that he plans to play Teixeira on Friday against the Orioles, but beyond that, the 36-year-old’s final games are something of a balancing act between the Yankees’ still-beating playoff pursuit and the persistent neck spasms …
