You probably feel like you have seen this movie before, and you don’t like how it ends.
The Yankees closed out May with a strong road trip and returned home having won six of their past seven games to move to 36-23, 1.5 games back of the Rays for the division lead and the best record in the American League.
Then they woke up on Monday and the calendar had flipped to June. And it only took a few days for the recent demons of that month to come flooding back: dropping two of three to the Guardians, a series that was played literally under sunny skies but figuratively with a dark cloud hanging over Yankee Stadium as they awaited a final word on exactly how bad Aaron Judge’s injury was.
That finally arrived late Thursday night, when the Yankees announced Judge has been diagnosed with a stress fracture in his first right rib, which will require rest and limited activity before he is re-imaged in about four to six weeks to determine next steps.