“Hopefully, it resolves it,” Cashman said of the shot. “If not, then we’ll talk about it later.”

Cashman noted that several other Yankees had dealt with the same problem, including Hideki Matsui, Carlos Beltran and Randy Johnson, and that they were able to manage the condition. All three of those players had floating pieces of cartilage surgically removed from their knees.

Sabathia, who is 3-4 with a 5.28 earned run average, said that he felt discomfort in his knee in the latter innings of his second-to-last start, on May 4, and that his knee grew swollen after the game. In his most recent start, on Friday in Milwaukee, Sabathia felt discomfort throughout the game and had swelling again.

A magnetic resonance imaging test showed no structural damage to his ligaments or his meniscus, which was surgically repaired in 2010.