Yankees bring back Greg Allen for wildcard game, DFA Andrew Heaney

BOSTON – Greg Allen and Rob Brantly have been added to the Yankees roster for Tuesday’s wild card game against the Red Sox at Fenway Park.

Allen will leave the bench as an additional pinch race option with Tyler Wade, unless Wade ends up in the starting lineup due to Gio Urshela’s thigh bruise. Urshela was injured falling hard in the dugout in Sunday’s victory over the Rays in the Bronx.

To make room on the roster for Allen and third receiver Brantly, the Yankees nominated Andrew Heaney and Brody Koerner for the assignment.

Heaney was picked last week to make room for the return of IL’s Jonathan Loaisiga and has agreed to report to their minor-league facilities in Tampa after a miserable stint with the Yankees following a trade. of the Angels in July. The southpaw was acquired in exchange for a pair of minor leaguers and pitched poorly as a starter and reliever with the Yankees.

Koerner’s contract had just been selected on Sunday after Luke Voit transferred to the 60-day IL with inflamed left knee.

Allen signed a minor league deal with the Yankees last offseason and provided a huge spark for the team after being called up from Triple-A Scranton / Wilkes-Barre in July when the Yankees were in the middle of an outbreak of COVID-19.

The 28-year-old forward rose to 10 for 37 with five more hits and an OPS of .849 in 15 games before being sent back to minors.

The Yankees went 11-4 in Allen’s 15-game streak.

Brantly appeared in six games for the Yankees earlier this season.