Aaron Judge is feeling “better,” manager Aaron Boone said before the Yankees’ 3-1 win over the Red Sox on Saturday night at the Stadium.
But a full week after the Yankees’ captain suffered the injury to his toe, there was no public information concerning how much time he will miss.
Judge, on the 10-day injured list with a right toe contusion and sprain of the ligament, still has not been further evaluated because the swelling in his toe had not subsided enough.
“He is doing a little bit better [Friday] and [Saturday],” Boone said.
The Yankees have said they will not know how long their captain will be absent from the lineup until they can get a better look at his toe, which he smashed into the concrete at the base of the Dodger Stadium right-field wall on June 3.
Boone said he has talked with Judge “just about every day” since, and the manager spoke with Michael Schuk, the club’s director of sports medicine and rehabilitation, “at length” on Saturday.
Schuk is optimistic about “the improvements they’re seeing swelling-wise,” Boone said, but evidently there has not been enough improvement yet.
Boone said he and Schuk talked about “what the next couple of days could look like if [Judge] continues to get better and better.”
Judge has missed six games since the injury. It is not a fracture, the team has said, but the exact prognosis is still unclear.
Anthony Rizzo, who didn’t play Saturday, entered the game in a 1-for-27 funk since he missed a series in Seattle last month with a neck injury.
“Just a breather,” said Boone, who repeatedly has said Rizzo’s neck is no longer bothering him.
DJ LeMahieu started at first base and went 0-for-3.
Harrison Bader (right hamstring strain) worked out on the field Saturday.
The center fielder is continuing to build up, but a return date from the IL is still unclear.
Boone said they did not yet know if Bader would need a rehab assignment.
“Hopefully we’re in a position sometime next week [for Bader to play], whether it’s a rehab game or two or whether it’s with us,” Boone said. “We’re not there yet.”
The Yankees-Red Sox game Friday, the first of the season between the teams, lasted just 2 hours, 28 minutes, which is almost unprecedented for a matchup with the rivals who notoriously have played long games.
“The pitch clock’s been a success,” Boone said before the game Saturday lasted 2:52.
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