X-rays and a CT scan were negative on Yankees shortstop Anthony Volpe’s elbow after he was hit by a pitch in a 9-6 win Friday night over the Boston Red Sox in New York.
“Good news,” manager Aaron Boone said after the game. .”.. A little stiff and sore but hopefully nothing that keeps him out for very long.”
Volpe sustained a contusion when an 88-mph changeup from Walker Buehler clipped his left elbow with the bases loaded in the second inning, forcing in a run to give New York a 7-0 lead.
Both the X-rays at Yankee Stadium and the CT scan at a Manhattan hospital revealed there was no fracture, Volpe said after returning to the ballpark.
“Once … the adrenaline wore off, it got pretty big,” Volpe said of his swollen elbow after returning to the ballpark, per NJ.com. “Painful and stiff.”