Gleyber Torres sits for Yankees with right wrist inflammation

Gleyber Torres didn’t play in the Yankees’ 9-5 win over Oakland on Monday night at Yankee Stadium. The second baseman had a second problem.

The one everyone saw came when he mildly sprained his right ankle while trying unsuccessfully to get back to third on a ninth-inning strikeout by Aaron Hicks in Sunday’s home win over Houston. That forced him to leave the game. But he was having another issue before that.

“Gleyber’s ankle is doing well,” manager Aaron Boone said. “He rolled it a little bit, but not such a big deal. But he did have an MRI on his wrist that has kind of just been bugging him a little bit lately. Came back structurally good.”

But Torres does have inflammation in that right wrist and was given a cortisone injection. Boone said it probably will keep him out for the first two games of this three-game series, “swinging a bat-wise, anyway.”

Torres has been in a 1-for-19 slide.

“It’s been the last couple of weeks,” Boone said of the wrist. “I think he had it taped up a couple of weeks ago. It’s just been kind of lingering. Nothing that’s kept him out of the lineup, obviously. But I think with him rolling the ankle, it was like, ‘OK, let’s get an image and see if we can knock this out.’ I don’t think it will be anything that lingers too much.”

Sears gets another shot

The Yankees are set to recall JP Sears from Triple-A to take Tuesday night’s start, just to give the rotation a break. He already had arrived before Monday night’s game — the team’s 14th in a stretch of 20 games in 20 days.

The next run the 26-year-old lefty allows at this level will be the first. He’s 2-0 in three games this season with the Yankees. He threw twice in relief in April, winning once. Then he started May 25 against Baltimore and earned the win, allowing three hits and two walks in five innings.

When asked if the Yankees will use a sixth starter again before the All-Star break, Boone said, “I don’t anticipate that.”

Jameson Taillon will start Wednesday’s series finale.

Extra bases

Aroldis Chapman (Achilles) is scheduled for a third rehab outing Tuesday night, this one with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, and then is expected to be ready for activation. The previous two were with Double-A Somerset . . . Anthony Rizzo was hit by a pitch in the right elbow in the seventh and left for a pinch hitter in the eighth. Rizzo said he should be OK to play Tuesday night. “Luckily I’m all right,” he said. “The whole arm just went dead there for a second. I would have been fine to hit. Just being smart.” . . . Isiah Kiner-Falefa didn’t appear in the game. Boone said the shortstop, who dropped a perfect sacrifice bunt on an 0-and-2 pitch Sunday despite having his finger get in the way of the pitch, had “essentially like a bruised nail.” Kiner-Falefa said he underwent an X-ray and was “good to go.”