Illness running through Yankees’ clubhouse forces lineup changes: ‘We got IVs going’

The Yankees are dealing with the same symptoms that they have been inflicting on their fan base over the past week. A handful of players woke up Wednesday morning with some kind of food poisoning or a stomach bug, Aaron Boone said, which forced the manager to rearrange his lineup to account for those who are sick because of something other than the Yankees’ six-game losing streak. Boone would not say which players were affected, other than Spencer Jones, who was out of the lineup because he was one of the ones dealing with the illness and replaced by José Caballero in center field against the Tigers. Spencer Jones was one of the Yankees players affected by the illness. Bill Kostroun/New York Post “We got IVs going and everything today,” Boone said. “Yeah, it’s been an interesting week on a lot of fronts. I had a lineup [Tuesday] night and kind of had to make some tweaks to it. Hopefully as the day unfolds, we got everyone available.” Boone said he, too, ate some of the food in the Yankees clubhouse after Tuesday’s game but was not yet feeling the effects of it. “I woke up to a lot of
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