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Palladino: Yankees’ Judge Seems Willing To Take Plunkings In Stride

Aaron Judge might as well get used to it.

He’s going to get hit now and then. It’s the way of baseball. The only fact in question will involve intent — whether the opposing pitcher meant to hit him, or if the ball “just got away” from the hurler.

And a lot of them will not coincidentally come an at-bat or two after Judge sends one of his adversary’s serves into orbit.

Sometimes, the opposing pitcher receives a small measure of baseball justice and gets tossed, like the Rays’ Matt Andriese did Saturday after he planted a payback pitch in Judge’s ribs to lead off the sixth inning of Tampa Bay’s 9-5 walloping of starter Masahiro Tanaka.