Yankees injuries mount; Greg Bird shut down again

Thursday was a rough night for Yankees. Not only did they lose to the A’s in 10 innings — two integral players left the contest with injuries. And this came 4 1/2 hours after Greg Bird was reportedly been shut down yet again.

The Yankees are smack dab in the middle of a nightmare California road trip. As if losing three out of four games wasn’t bad enough, both Gary Sanchez (abductor muscle) and Aaron Hicks (Achilles) exited in the ninth inning of Thursday night’s heartbreaking 8-7 defeat.

On the pitching front, reliever Adam Warren was unavailable to pitch in the contest due to a strained trap muscle in his right shoulder — in addition to CC Sabathia hitting the 10-day DL with a Grade 2 left…