Well this is potentially terrible. Aaron Judge exited this afternoon’s game with an apparent injury after flying out to right field in the sixth inning. Replays showed him grabbing at his right side, which is a pretty good indication it’s his oblique, but we’ll see.
Judge is the Yankees’ best hitter and best all-around player, and, as we saw last year, they are not the same team without him in the lineup. Losing him for any stretch of time would be devastating even if the Yankees were perfectly healthy otherwise. That is most certainly not the case though.