Aaron Judge injury: Yankees slugger gets clean test results after getting hit by pitch on the hand [Video]

New York Yankees star and super early AL MVP candidate Aaron Judge does not have a fracture in his left hand after being hit by a pitch in Tuesday night’s series-opening win against the Baltimore Orioles (NYY 4, BAL 2), he confirmed after the game. Judge exited the game one inning after the hit-by-pitch.

“Feeling better. Feeling better after we got some good news,” Judge said after the game. “X-rays, CT scans came back negative. We’re in a good spot. A big relief. Being hit there before a couple years ago and breaking the wrist (in 2018), you don’t know what’s going to happen. Finding out that it’s not fractured, it’s not broken, is definitely a sigh of relief.”

Here is the pitch — a 94.1 mph fastball from Albert Suárez— that hit Judge on the bottom of the hand rather than flush …