When Aaron Judge dove for a ball and landed on his right shoulder on Sept. 18, the possibility that the Yankees right fielder wouldn’t be available for the ALDS was real for a short period of time.
“It creeps into your mind when you first dive and kind of jar things up,’’ said Judge, who will hit second and play right field in Game 1 vs. the Twins at the Stadium. “But once I started playing again and was back in the lineup, swinging, throwing, everything feels fine. I knew I was going to be fine.’’
Considering Judge’s size, there was a lot of body crashing to the Stadium turf.