{"id":856770,"date":"2026-08-16T01:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T01:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/856770\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T01:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T01:30:25","slug":"yankees-aaron-judge-takes-step-toward-return-from-rib-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/856770\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees&#8217; Aaron Judge takes step toward return from rib injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2014 Yankees outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/aaron-judge\/86f7390e-61bd-4556-8325-a6705c7f693b\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"86f7390e-61bd-4556-8325-a6705c7f693b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Aaron Judge<\/a> played catch in New York on Friday as he continues working toward a return from a broken right rib.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust part of the ramp-up to baseball activity,\u201d manager Aaron Boone said of Judge before Saturday\u2019s game against the Blue Jays in Toronto. \u201cHopefully he\u2019ll continue to progress through this week. We\u2019ll see what else gets introduced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Judge hasn\u2019t played since May 31, but the three-time AL MVP and eight-time all-star has said he intends to return this season. He was cleared to begin light workout activity on Aug. 5.<\/p>\n<p>Boone spoke to Judge and said the slugger responded well to throwing for the first time in his rehab. However, Boone didn\u2019t know when Judge might be ready to rejoin the Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect him back, but we\u2019re in the early stages of baseball activity,\u201d Boone said. \u201cHopefully things continue to go well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Judge is hitting .248 with 17 home runs, 38 RBIs and a .907 OPS. He had just one homer in his final 18 games before going on the IL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge played catch in New York on Friday as he continues working toward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-856770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}