Ellsbury has heel pain in addition to injured hip

NEW YORK — Jacoby Ellsbury’s latest ailment is plantar fasciitis, preventing the New York Yankees outfielder from fully resuming baseball activities. The 34year-old centre fielder has been on the disabled list since the start of the season. He did not play in any exhibition games from March 1 until March 24 because of an oblique injury and finished spring training with one hit in 14 at-bats. Yankees manager Aaron Boone disclosed April 3 that Ellsbury had injured a hip during his rehabilitation, and Ellsbury received a cortisone injection April 10. New York had hoped he would resume baseball activities last Friday, but Boone said Monday the heel pain had caused another setback. Boone said the oblique had healed. Ellsbury, a backup outfielder after losing the starting centre field job to Aaron Hicks last season, hit .264 with seven homers and 39 RBIs in 112 games last season.