Cervelli: Another spring training injury

TAMPA, Fla. - Another spring, another injury for Francisco Cervelli.

The catcher left yesterday's game with a bruised left foot, the result of fouling a ball off it in the second inning. Cervelli, who has now suffered injuries three of the last four springs, had a CT scan and then an MRI, which Joe Girardi said came back "inconclusive."

"We'll have a couple of doctors look at the results tonight," Girardi said.

Cervelli stayed in the game, walked, and caught the top of the third before Girardi pulled him. "Every spring training something happens," said Cervelli, who got a concussion last year after getting hit in the head with a pitch, and sustained a broken wrist on a collision at the plate in 2008. "But it's OK. It's a part of the game."

Should the injury be more serious, Girardi didn't rule out Jorge Posada doing some catching this spring.

"I don't know," he said.

Joba gets it done

While not as smooth as his outing in Saturday's spring opener, when he set down the Phillies in order, Joba Chamberlain pitched another effective inning against the Astros. After allowing back-to-back one-out singles in the fourth, Chamberlain induced a double-play ball to get out of the inning.

"It was nice to get some runners on," Chamberlain said, before realizing how it sounded.

"Just to be able to get them, and [work] out of the stretch, having the anxiety of having them on and then being able to get down in the zone and get a ground ball."

Extra bases

Russell Martin was seen walking in the clubhouse with a brace on his right knee but said it was for "injury prevention," and not a sign the knee isn't healing. He pinch hit yesterday, drawing a walk with the bases loaded to win it in the ninth, and will start at DH Thursday before starting behind the plate for the first time this spring Friday . . . After hitting seven straight grounders - one of which was a hit - to start the spring, Derek Jeter lined out to center in the third, then singled to center. He's 2-for-9 in three games.