Derek Jeter not with Yankees, won't travel to Detroit

• Jeter was not at Yankee Stadium for Sunday's Game 2
• An orthopedic surgeon said the fracture may have been caused by previous injuries
• Jeter will miss the rest of the postseason

NEW YORK -- New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter, who fractured his left ankle Saturday night, was not at Yankee Stadium for Sunday's Game 2 of the American League Championship Series against the Detroit Tigers.

Instead, he was resting at home after undergoing a CT scan and MRI that confirmed he has a fractured left ankle.

"He was pushing his foot to the metal,'' a person close to Jeter said Sunday, "and he pushed it too far. He was tired. He has been playing so much. The game was late. He just sounded so tired.

"He's very frustrated,'' said the person, who spoke to USA TODAY Sports on the condition of anonymity because Jeter's injury is still being evaluated.

Jeter will not accompany the Yankees to Detroit. The best-of-seven series resumes at Comerica Park with Game 3 on Tuesday night. Instead, Jeter will be examined in Charlotte, N.C., by foot and ankle specialist Dr. Robert Anderson sometime later this week.

Yankee manager Joe Girardi said he did not think Jeter was playing with a hairline fracture but acknowledged that Jeter's ankle and foot injuries the last month may have led to the ankle fracture.

"Maybe the soreness from the other two injuries that he had,'' Girardi said, "had something to do with this. We have seen that happen a lot of times.

"I mentioned when Tex (Mark Teixeira) had the broken toe, and I think that contributed to him pulling his hamstring in 2010 because you have to run a little bit differently. Can I say that 100%. No.

"But those are things that you do worry about. And we talk about it with pitchers, that they have a bad let, you worry about them hurting their arm.

"But we're at the time of year where you run them out there.''

Dr. Stephen Hunt, an orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist at Atlantic Sports at Morristown Medical Center in Morristown, N.J., said it's possible that the fracture may have been caused by previous injuries.

"The bone bruise he had before can lead to a little more pain when running,'' Hunt said, "so you put your leg in a different position to avoid the pain. If your mechanics are different, that could have led to the predisposition.

"It appears that this is a stable fracture, so it should take six to 10 weeks of recovery, and then rehab to get his strength back, and most important, his balance. Three months is a pretty good timetable to heal the process.

"But the prognosis is great. There are no risk factors I'm aware of so he should be fine by next spring.''

Contributing: John Perrotto