On Thursday in the Bronx, the Yankees introduced recent trade acquisition Zach Britton, announced a deal for J.A. Happ and beat the Royals, 7–2, to get within 4 1/2 games of the Red Sox in the AL East. But amid all that happy news, disaster: Aaron Judge went down after suffering a chip fracture in his right wrist against Kansas City.
The injury came after Judge was hit by a Jakob Junis fastball in the first inning. Because Judge is made of a combination of adamantium and mithril, the big rightfielder stayed in the game, scored on a sac fly that inning, then took another turn at-bat in the third, hitting an infield single.