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Aaron Judge exits with injury in Yankees’ game vs. Orioles, sent for MRI – Latest updates

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Aaron Judge exits with injury in Yankees’ game vs. Orioles, sent for MRI – Latest updates

NEW YORK – Yankees superstar Aaron Judge exited Tuesday night’s game, one inning after being struck by a pitch to his left hand.

According to the Yankees, Judge was sent for an MRI at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and is expected to be examined by Yankees physician Dr. Christopher Ahmad.

Leading off the third inning, Judge took a 94-mph 2-2 fastball off the top of his hand by Baltimore Orioles right-handed starter Albert Suarez.

In obvious pain, Judge gripped his left hand with his right, wincing as he slowly made his way to first base.

The Yankees captain would eventually score on a Giancarlo Stanton single during a two-run inning that also saw Ben Rice collect his first big-league hit, a sharp single to right in his second at-bat.

Judge played center field in the top of the fourth inning but was lifted for pinch-hitter Trent Grisham in the bottom of the inning, with the Yanks leading 3-0.

Entering this series between the AL East leading Yankees and the second place Orioles, 1.5 games behind the Yanks, Judge has been on a massive stretch – batting .374 with 22 homers and 51 RBI in 46 games since April 27.

After Gleyber Torres was struck in the right hand by a Keegan Akin pitch in the fifth, Yankees starter Nestor Cortes came up and in against Orioles’ star Gunnar Henderson in the sixth, knocking him off the plate.

The Orioles’ next batter, Anthony Santander, had to avoid a pitch at his knees that got past catcher Austin Wells and was scored a passed ball.

Giancarlo Stanton glared at Akin in the sixth, after a high-and-tight pitch – adding to some of the tense atmosphere since Judge’s departure.

MLB’s home run leader with 26, Judge missed 45 team games in 2018, when he was struck by a pitch on July 26 that caused a chip fracture to his right wrist.

Last season, Judge missed 42 team games after suffering torn ligaments to his right big toe after he slammed into the outfield wall June 3 at Dodger Stadium.

It was a rough start to Tuesday already for the Yankees, placing Anthony Rizzo and pitchers Cody Poteet and Ian Hamilton on the injured list.

Rizzo, with a fractured right forearm, will be lost for eight weeks.

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