Joe Girardi offered an interesting answer when asked if, in order to get to the bottom of Masahiro Tanaka's difficulties, the Yankees had sent him for any additional "scans" to make sure there's nothing physically wrong.
"There isn't," Girardi said before Wednesday's game. "You just don't scan people, you just don't light them up inside. We don't want to turn him into Spider-Man or Superman or something like that. Radiation is something you have to deal with, so, no, you just don't scan people to scan them. We have to do that in the airport and none of us like it."
Tanaka enters Thursday's start 5-3, but with a 6.56 ERA. That number was bumped up significantly by what's happened in his last two outings after he allowed 14 runs and 16 hits, including seven home runs in 42/3 innings. There hasn't been any indication of any kind of injury, but the right-hander has allowed 13 home runs in 48 innings this season.
