Yankees Lose Cervelli and Nova to Injury but Salvage a Win The 2013 Yankees, with a cast of has-beens and unknowns, have prided themselves on persevering, and Friday's game was a case in point. In the first three innings, the Yankees lost their starting pitcher and catcher, possibly for a significant amount of time, but they ultimately prevailed against the Toronto Blue Jays, 6-4. Just five pitches into Friday's game at Yankee Stadium, catcher Francisco Cervelli was struck on his right hand by a foul tip from the Blue Jays" leadoff hitter, Rajai Davis. Cervelli left the game and was taken to the clubhouse for X-rays, which revealed a fracture. He will have surgery on Saturday to repair the break and will miss at least six weeks. Less than two innings later, the Yankees lost their starting pitcher, Ivan Nova, who complained of right triceps pain after allowing a single up the middle to Davis in the third. Nova was taken out of the game, and he was scheduled to have a magnetic resonance imaging test. The results of that test were not immediately available. Neither Nova nor Cervelli was in the clubhouse after the game. "Guys keep stepping up, just like they did tonight," Manager Joe Girardi said of dealing with the team's numerous injuries. Nova's fastball, which registered as high as 93 miles per hour in the first inning, had difficulty breaking into the 90s by the third. He pitched a scoreless first but struggled badly in the second. After throwing 9 off-speed pitches out of 20 total in the first, Nova abandoned the breaking ball and threw nine consecutive fastballs to start the second. After the second inning, Nova came back to the dugout and complained of triceps pain, but he asked Girardi for a chance to pitch the third. Nova hit Munenori Kawasaki to start the inning and then allowed a line-drive single to Davis. After the hit, Nova walked around the mound for several moments, which led the Yankees" trainer, Steve Donohue, and Girardi to race from the dugout. Nova, who has struggled badly this season, appeared despondent as he came out of the game. The loss of Cervelli could prove to be a bigger problem for the Yankees. Cervelli, who was hitting .269 with an .877 on-base plus slugging percentage, had been one of the team's most consistent offensive performers. "It's really disappointing for him because of all that he's been through to get to this point," Girardi said. To replace Cervelli, the Yankees will call up Austin Romine, who is hitting .341 for Class AAA Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. "He's got a lot of talent," Yankees catcher Chris Stewart, who replaced Cervelli on Friday, said of Romine. It's just a matter of experience. The loss of Nova would also sting. Although he entered Friday's game with a 6.14 earned run average, the Yankees have little starting pitching depth. David Phelps, who struck out nine in four innings in relief of Nova on Friday, is likely to replace him in the rotation. At this point, the Yankees are unlikely to call up Chien-Ming Wang, who was signed to a minor league contract this off-season, despite his 0.75 E.R.A. in two starts at Class AAA this season. Girardi said that without Nova's M.R.I. results, it was too soon to know what would happen with the rotation. "We've got a scrappy bunch, guys that have fought their whole careers," Phelps said. We're going to win ballgames in different ways. By the end of the third inning, the Yankees" infield looked like the type fans see in a spring training road game. The only regular infielder on the field was second baseman Robinson Cano. The Yankees have already have dealt with significant injuries to Derek Jeter, Mark Teixeira, Alex Rodriguez and Curtis Granderson, and the new corner infielder Kevin Youkilis has missed the past six games because of back spasms. Yet the Yankees - with run-scoring hits from Eduardo Nunez, Vernon Wells and Lyle Overbay, all replacements for regulars - won on Friday, and Phelps recorded the win. It also helped to have the seemingly ageless Mariano Rivera, who notched his eighth save of the season by striking out Colby Rasmus with the bases loaded in the ninth.