{"id":39714,"date":"2025-07-26T22:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T22:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/39714\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T22:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T22:21:07","slug":"yankees-judge-headed-to-il-with-flexor-strain-but-no-ucl-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/39714\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees’ Judge headed to IL with flexor strain but no UCL damage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jul 26, 2025, 05:07 PM ET<\/p>\n

NEW YORK — Yankees<\/a> captain Aaron Judge<\/a> will go on the injured list with a flexor strain in his right elbow, but a scan showed no damage to the ulnar collateral ligament of the two-time AL MVP.<\/p>\n

Manager Aaron Boone said Judge will have 10 days to two weeks of no throwing and will be the designated hitter at first when he returns. Giancarlo Stanton<\/a>, the team’s primary DH, will start to work out in the outfield.<\/p>\n

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“All in all, we got good news today,” Boone said after Saturday’s 9-4 loss<\/a> to the Philadelphia Phillies<\/a>. “I think all of us kind of feared the worst.”<\/p>\n

Judge was sent for an MRI Saturday morning and was out of the starting lineup for just the second time this season.<\/p>\n

He leads the major leagues with a .342 batting average and 1.160 OPS. He has 37 home runs and 85 RBIs for a New York team that opened a seven-game AL East lead by late May but started Saturday a season-high 5\u00bd games back of first-place Toronto.<\/p>\n

Judge winced at Toronto on Tuesday after catching Alejandro Kirk<\/a>‘s seventh-inning fly in the right-field corner and throwing to second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr<\/a>. as Dante Bichette tagged up and went from second to third. Judge was seen by a YES Network camera clenching his right hand in a fist.<\/p>\n

“He had a throw in Toronto where it zinged him, it hurt,” Boone said.<\/p>\n

Judge was the DH the following day in Wednesday’s series finale, which Boone said then was planned. He was in right field for Friday’s series-opening 12-5 loss to Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

“Felt like he was fine on the off day and then just last night was really dealing with it,” Boone said. “He couldn’t really throw well from the outfield.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 26, 2025, 05:07 PM ET NEW YORK — Yankees captain Aaron Judge will go on the injured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-39714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}