Apparently, Michael Pineda’s drinking arm is just fine.
The injured Yankees fastballer was arrested for DUI in Tampa, Fla., yesterday after a cop spotted the burly Bronx Bomber allegedly speeding and swerving in his SUV — with no headlights on — down a busy thoroughfare.
Pineda, 23, told The Post he’d knocked back just “three or four” whiskeys with cranberry juice over “three or four” hours.
He was shocked to hear that the cop who pulled him over said he was swerving.
“I was driving very smoothly,” he insisted.
Pineda — who has been at the Yankees’ Tampa facility recovering from season-ending shoulder surgery — was first spotted by police driving erratically in a Nissan SUV at 2:35 a.m., the arrest report said.
The car’s headlights were off and it was moving at “a high rate of speed and weaving from side to side, crossing the lane markers, failing to maintain [a] single lane of travel,” the officer wrote.
When he was pulled over, the 6-foot-7, 260-pound hurler from the Dominican Republic “had a slow/lethargic mannerism and appeared to be intoxicated,” the cop wrote. “He had a fixed gaze and his eyes were bloodshot, watery & glassy.”
“I could smell a distinct odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from his breath, and his speech was slurred.”
Pineda’s blood-alcohol level was allegedly .128 and .125 in separate tests — well over Florida’ s .08 limit.
He was released from jail hours later after posting a $500 bond.
Pineda was supposed to be racking up wins for the Yankees this summer.
The team included top prospect Jesus Montero in its trade with the Seattle Mariners for the All-Star pitcher — but he showed up for spring training significantly overweight and quickly became injured and unable to play.
He is not expected back until next season.
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