Aaron Judge will almost certainly sit out the New York Yankees' upcoming American League wild-card series due to a calf strain, manager Aaron Boone told reporters on Tuesday, Sept. 23.
Judge missed 75 games this season with a rib fracture and then suffered the calf strain in just his seventh game back Sept. 16 at Minnesota. While the Yankees have fared well enough without him - they are 89-66 and can clinch the No. 2 wild card spot with one more victory - his lineup presence will be greatly missed in the postseason.
The Yankees will likely play the Boston Red Sox for the second consecutive year in an AL wild-card best-of-three that begins Sept. 29.
"We're planning on him not being a part of that," says Boone, who also noted Judge had a platelet-poor
plasma injection in the leg.
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