Yankees put Aaron Judge on injured record with damage hip

NEW YORK — Yankees captain Aaron Judge went on the injured record 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 damage final Wednesday when he landed laborious whereas making a clumsy 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 stated 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 record for the seventh time since making his debut in 2016, He stayed wholesome final 12 months 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 record since 2016: the ultimate 18 video games of 2016 with a strained proper indirect, 45 in 2018 with a damaged proper wrist after hit by a pitch from Kansas City’s Jakob Junis, 54 in 2019 with a strained left indirect, two 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 file right down to 15-14. The Yankees totaled eight runs through 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.