Yankees’ Aaron Judge already feeling good less than week after breaking wrist

Injured right fielder Aaron Judge provided an update on his broken wrist after the Yankees’ 6-3 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday, July 31, 2018 (7/31/18) at Yankee Stadium.

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NEW YORK — Dressed in slacks and a t-shirt, Yankees injured right fielder Aaron Judge made a quick stop at his locker Tuesday night as winning pitcher Masahiro Tanaka held court with Japanese reporters and offensive hero Miguel Andujar talked to American writers.

The best news coming from the home clubhouse following the Yankees’ 6-3 win over the Baltimore Orioles was Judge showing off his fractured right wrist to two reporters and declaring he was pain free.

“It feels good,” the All-Star slugger said with a smile while looking down at his wrist, which was not wrapped and not swollen five days after a 93-mph fastball by Kansas City Royals righty Jakob Junis struck him, causing a chip fracture of his right ulnar styloid bone.

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Besides this important win, which was fueled by Tanaka’s six shutout innings and Andujar’s three-run, fifth-inning homer that doubled the lead to 6-0, the most uplifting part of the Yankees’ day was Judge feeling up to shagging some flies in right field during BP without a wrist brace.

This pre-game sighting and his post-game comments are encouraging updates obviously, but Judge’s initial timetable of no baseball activities for three weeks hasn’t changed. And so for the time being, his daily work remains the same … a lot of rest and a lot of icing his wrist.

“That’s about it,” Judge said. “I’ve got to heal it up first. It’s a broken bone. It’s got to heal.”

Judge now is playing a waiting game. He’s been told that he should be healthy in another 2 1/2 weeks, but until then he’ll show up to the ballpark every day waiting for instructions on what he’s allowed to do.

For now, he’s not even allowed to grip a baseball bat let alone take a light swing.

“I’m just taking it one day at a time,” Judge said. “After I start doing stuff, I’ll see how it feels.”

Judge hates missing games, and sitting out the Yankees’ last four have been frustrating, but he feels fortunate that he could be back playing by mid-to-late August.

“It could be worse,” Judge said. “It could be a lot worse, so I’m thankful for that.”

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