New York Yankees outfielder Jake Bauers made a good first impression in his initial appearance with the club against the Texas Rangers on Saturday but he didn’t last long.

In the first inning, Bauers crashed into the left-field wall in full sprint at Globe Life Field and caught Adolis Garcia’s hard-hit ball. Bauers paid the price as he left soon after with a bruised right knee.

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He walked off the field accompanied by Yankees manager Aaron Boone and members of the organization’s training staff. Aaron Hicks would replace Bauers in the second inning as the journeyman outfielder wouldn’t register an at-bat in his first appearance with the Bronx Bombers.

The team said X-rays were negative. He wasn’t in the lineup ahead of the series finale against the Rangers on Sunday.

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Bauers was selected to the 50-man roster as Aaron Judge was unavailable after he suffered a mild hip strain in Thursday’s series opener.

The 27-year-old was a seventh-round draft pick of the San Diego Padres in 2013. He was included as part of a three-team trade that later saw the Washington Nationals send Trea Turner to the Padres. Bauers was traded to the Tampa Bay Rays. He was then a part of a three-team trade to the then-Cleveland Indians in 2018. In 2021, Bauers was traded to the Seattle Mariners.

He joined the Yankees ahead of the 2023 season.

In 329 career games, Bauers is hitting .213 with a .655 OPS and 27 home runs.

As negotiations between President Biden and Republicans over the nation’s debt limit remain up in the air, Democrat Sen. Chris Van Hollen suggested on "Fox News Sunday" that Congress should let the president take the lead on raising the debt ceiling and then negotiate the "important issues" later.

Van Hollen, who has represented Maryland since 2017, said Biden and Republicans have yet to come to the table for negotiations because the GOP has threatened the "detonation" of the economy with steep spending reductions in the sweeping package passed last week to raise the debt limit by $1.5 trillion.

"If Republicans don’t want to do what’s necessary to prevent the meltdown of the economy, let President Biden do that," Van Hollen said. "And then let’s negotiate on important issues, priorities, how you best achieve deficit reduction."

Van Hollen added that while under his suggestion Biden would be given the authority on raising the debt limit, it would still be subject to a veto or override. 

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Under the guidance of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., Republicans passed legislation on Thursday, an opening bid that is now awaiting the president’s response.

Democrats, however, oppose the harsh spending cuts that Republicans have proposed and have accused them of threatening default.

Van Hollen said Biden "will sit down" with McCarthy on budget issues, but the president won’t negotiate with anyone who is "literally threatening to blow up the economy."

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"What the president is saying, he's not going to negotiate with someone who's actually threatening the economy, taking the entire economy hostage," the senator said.

"He will sit down with Speaker McCarthy to talk about these issues in the framework of the budget and the appropriations process," Van Hollen continued. "President Biden has put a plan on the table, quite a detailed budget, much more detailed than what Speaker McCarthy in the House just passed."

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Economic analysts warn that even the political threat of a federal default on the nation’s debt, now at $31 trillion, would send shockwaves through an already jittery economy. 

With economic growth falling to a sluggish 1% annual rate last quarter, according to new data this week, signs point to the potential for a recession ahead.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.