NEW YORK -- Yankees first baseman Greg Bird said he was looking forward to seeing yet another doctor in his quest to return from a foot injury that's wrecked his season.



"I'm interested to see what he has to say, to be honest," Bird said after the Yankees lost to the Brewers, 5-3, at Yankee Stadium on Sunday.



Bird was scheduled see Dr. Martin O'Malley at Hospital for Special Surgery at 9 a.m. Monday. He's been dealing with a right ankle bone bruise since fouling a ball off his ankle the last game of spring training.

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Though tests appear to show nothing structurally wrong with Bird's ankle, it's still keeping him from performing baseball activities. The 23-year-old has spent the last couple of days in New York lifting weights and nothing more.



"I feel pain in everything I do," he said. "Now, it becomes more of a problem hitting. Plain and simple. That's the biggest problem I've had so far. So, it's frustrating. We've tried a thousand different things. It's just, I still have problems, which is odd. But it's been frustrating, really."



Bird has been on the disabled list since May 2. He hit .100 in 19 games before doctors told him to shut down physical activity for about a week to let the bruise heal before he began a rehabilitation program.



Bird played in 12 minor-league rehab games but continued to feel pain in the ankle. After the Yankees shut him down again, Bird saw a specialist and got a cortisone shot. It hasn't helped.



General manager Brian Cashman has said the team has considered exploratory surgery to find the problem. Bird has said he thinks that's a long way from becoming a realistic possibility.



Bird said things have just gone "backward" since he started playing minor-league games.



"I'm still feeling pain in my ankle," he said. "That's a problem. I took a lot of time off after the first DL stint, whatever you want to call it. And I felt like we had gained some ground, but then it just went backward. That's the problem. It just hasn't improved like I'd like it to or they'd like it to. So, that's been the major problem."

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