Aaron Judge threw strongly and accurately to bases from right field Thursday afternoon at Yankee Stadium. Now the Yankees’ right fielder will begin taking batting practice in the indoor cage this weekend as he comes back from a strained left oblique that forced him out of a game on April 20. “It will start this weekend and continue into next week,’’ Judge said before Thursday night’s Red Sox-Yankees was postponed to Aug. 3 due to expected heavy rains. When Judge graduates from indoor cage work to the field depends on how the cage activity goes, but that could come in Toronto next week, when the Yankees open a three-game series against the lowly Blue Jays on Tuesday. If Judge looks as good taking batting practice as he did fielding ground balls, fly balls and balls off the wall, it will kick-start the chatter about when the All-Star right fielder will jump off the injured list and add muscle to a lineup that has survived without him, Giancarlo Stanton, Didi Gregorius and Miguel Andujar. see also Yankees' Dellin Betances trying to trust the process Dellin Betances would prefer to be doing more than throwing... “I felt I haven’t missed a day, it feels like April [20],’’ Judge said of Thursday’s workout — when he was joined by Clint Frazier, who has struggled defensively in right field and went through the same drills Judge did. “There is no pain and no problem. I am letting it go. The last couple of days, getting back to normal routine and getting the rhythm down again.’’ Despite him missing 35 games (the Yankees are 26-9 in that stretch), manager Aaron Boone said Judge has played a part in the Yankees forging a 36-19 ledger and being atop the AL East going into Thursday’s action. “When he got injured, one of the first conversations I had with him was that, ‘You can still impact us in a big way,’ ” Boone said. “I feel like he has. He went on that first road trip with us. He is part of our hitters’ meetings. He is part of integrating players brought into the clubhouse. He has been a huge part of this for the guys in that room.’’ Thursday’s game will be made up as the second game of a day-night, separate admission doubleheader on Aug. 3, a Saturday. Tickets for Thursday’s rainout are valid only for the second game that day. The start time of the originally scheduled game on Aug. 3 has been changed from 4:05 p.m. to 1:05 p.m. Tickets dated for Aug. 3 are valid only for the first game of the twin bill. No matter how many times Boone is asked about the possibility of the Yankees separating themselves from the defending World Series champion Red Sox this weekend, the Bombers’ manager issues the same answer in different ways. see also Yankees don't want Red Sox's uphill climb to get easier It must feel like requiring two tanks of gas to... “I mean, we are playing the Boston Red Sox,’’ Boone said of the Yankees’ blood rivals, who are third in the AL East, 7 ½ games behind the AL East-leading Yankees. “We know how good they are over t
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Aaron Judge threw strongly and accurately to bases from right field Thursday afternoon at Yankee Stadium. Now the Yankees’ right fielder will begin taking batting practice in the indoor cage this weekend as he comes back from a strained left oblique that forced him out of a game on April 20. “It will start this weekend and continue into next week,’’ Judge said before Thursday night’s Red Sox-Yankees was postponed to Aug. 3 due to expected heavy rains. When Judge graduates from indoor cage work to the field depends on how the cage activity goes, but that could come in Toronto next week, when the Yankees open a three-game series against the lowly Blue Jays on Tuesday. If Judge looks as good taking batting practice as he did fielding ground balls, fly balls and balls off the wall, it will kick-start the chatter about when the All-Star right fielder will jump off the injured list and add muscle to a lineup that has survived without him, Giancarlo Stanton, Didi Gregorius and Miguel Andujar. see also Yankees' Dellin Betances trying to trust the process Dellin Betances would prefer to be doing more than throwing... “I felt I haven’t missed a day, it feels like April [20],’’ Judge said of Thursday’s workout — when he was joined by Clint Frazier, who has struggled defensively in right field and went through the same drills Judge did. “There is no pain and no problem. I am letting it go. The last couple of days, getting back to normal routine and getting the rhythm down again.’’ Despite him missing 35 games (the Yankees are 26-9 in that stretch), manager Aaron Boone said Judge has played a part in the Yankees forging a 36-19 ledger and being atop the AL East going into Thursday’s action. “When he got injured, one of the first conversations I had with him was that, ‘You can still impact us in a big way,’ ” Boone said. “I feel like he has. He went on that first road trip with us. He is part of our hitters’ meetings. He is part of integrating players brought into the clubhouse. He has been a huge part of this for the guys in that room.’’ Thursday’s game will be made up as the second game of a day-night, separate admission doubleheader on Aug. 3, a Saturday. Tickets for Thursday’s rainout are valid only for the second game that day. The start time of the originally scheduled game on Aug. 3 has been changed from 4:05 p.m. to 1:05 p.m. Tickets dated for Aug. 3 are valid only for the first game of the twin bill. No matter how many times Boone is asked about the possibility of the Yankees separating themselves from the defending World Series champion Red Sox this weekend, the Bombers’ manager issues the same answer in different ways. see also Yankees don't want Red Sox's uphill climb to get easier It must feel like requiring two tanks of gas to... “I mean, we are playing the Boston Red Sox,’’ Boone said of the Yankees’ blood rivals, who are third in the AL East, 7 ½ games behind the AL East-leading Yankees. “We know how good they are over t
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