After being dropped to the No. 9 spot in the lineup, the struggling Jorge Posada went into manager Joe Girardi's office and asked out of Saturday's lineup. "The conversation was really short," Girardi said. "He came into my office and said he needed a day, he couldn't DH today. That was basically the extent of the conversation." After the game, Posada said that he was dealing with back stiffness and told Girardi that he needed a day to "clear his head." "I told him I couldn't play today and that I needed time to, first to clear my head," Posada said after the Yankees' 6-0 loss to the Red Sox. "That was it. My back stiffened up a little bit. I was taking a lot of ground balls at first base and worked out and I wasn't 100 percent." Read more: http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/news/story?id=6548896
