Life without Aaron Judge began for the Yankees on Friday night in The Bronx, and Aaron Boone is hopeful the right fielder isn’t out much longer than three weeks with a chip fracture in his right wrist.
“Making out the lineup today, I don’t like not writing [Judge’s] name in there,’’ Boone said before the Yankees faced the Royals a day after Judge was drilled by a 93 mph fastball from Kansas City’s Jakob Junis in the first inning of Thursday night’s win. “But I also feel like it’s a very capable lineup, the way it’s constructed right now.