Yankees move Aaron Judge to 10-day IL with right hip strain

Baseball
Published 02.05.2023
Yankees move Aaron Judge to 10-day IL with right hip strain

NEW YORK (AP) — Yankees captain Aaron Judge went on the injured listing due to a strained proper hip, becoming a member of Giancarlo Stanton, Harrison Bader and third baseman Josh Donaldson on the sidelines.

New York introduced the transfer earlier than Monday night time’s sequence opener in opposition to Cleveland and made the transfer retroactive to Friday. Judge is eligible to be activated for the May 8 sequence opener in opposition to Oakland.

Judge was harm final Wednesday when he landed arduous whereas making an ungainly headfirst slide at Minnesota on his thirty first birthday. He remained within the sport and began Thursday at Texas, then left within the fourth inning after putting out twice.

A four-time All-Star and the reigning AL MVP, Judge is batting .261 with six homers and 14 RBIs in his first season after signing a $360 million, nine-year contract.

“Each of the last few days I feel like it’s going better,” Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone mentioned earlier Monday earlier than Judge labored out. “Just want to make sure we do right by him and what’s best for him and for us.”

Judge is on the injured listing for the seventh time since making his debut in 2016, He stayed wholesome final yr and hit an American League-record 62 house runs, batting .311 with 131 RBIs, tying the Mets’ Pete Alonso for the most important league lead.

Judge has missed 156 video games on the injured listing since 2016: the ultimate 18 video games of 2016 with a strained proper indirect45 in 2018 with a damaged proper wrist after hit by a pitch from Kansas City’s Jakob Junis54 in 2019 with a strained left indirecttwo stints totaling 30 video games in 2020 with a strained proper calf and 9 video games in 2021 on the COVID IL.

New York misplaced six of eight heading into the homestand, its report all the way down to 15-14. The Yankees totaled eight runs throughout the six losses.

Outfielder/infielder Franchy Cordero was recalled from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Cordero traveled from Texas to Worcester, Massachusetts, on Saturday after he was optioned to the RailRiders.

Then, after Jake Bowers received harm crashing into the left-field wall within the first inning of his Yankees debut on Saturday, Cordero headed again to Texas on Sunday to affix the Yankees taxi squad.