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NEW YORK -- Yankees center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury left Friday night's 5-3 win against the Toronto Blue Jays in the fifth inning with a right hamstring strain apparently suffered while he was running out a grounder in the bottom of the fourth. Ellsbury was at Columbia Presbyterian Hospitsal in Manhattan getting an MRI during the postgame clubhouse session and was not available to reporters. The Yankees said the results of the MRI will not be known until Saturday. But manager Joe Girardi did not seem optimistic about Ellsbury's chances of playing very much, or even at all, as the Yankees try to salvage a wild-card berth in the final 10 games of their season. Asked if thought Ellsbury was lost to him for the season, Girardi said, "Well, I think that's a distinct possibility. Any time a guy comes out and grabs his hamstring, you're always concerned. He's a huge part of our offense. "It's not what you want, but we have to deal with it. That's all we can do.'' Ellsbury had hit a two-run home run, his 16th of the season, to give the Yankees a 3-2 lead in the third inning and drove in the Yankees' fourth run on the play on which he was injured, a grounder to shortstop that became a force out at second. But Ellsbury was safe at first when Jose Reyes' throw sailed wide of first, allowing a fifth, unearned run to score. Ellsbury, who is batting .271, leads the Yankees with 70 RBIs.
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