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Elsa/Getty ImagesNot that it really means anything http://www.marlinsfanproshop.com/authentic-starlin-castro-jersey , but the New York Yankees have lost three of the four gamesAaron Judgehasn't started this season. And they scored one run in those three losses. One run, total, in three games.Not that it really means anything, or does it? right wrist heals enough to allow him to play again (the initial estimate is three weeks), but this is the kind of injury that can linger long after a player returns to the lineup."He won't be 100 percent until 2019, probably," one American League scout who follows the Yankees said late Thursday night.The scout has no real way of knowing how Judge will look in September and more importantly October, but that's not the point. None of us can know until we see him then. The Yankees can't know, eitherot yet.Hand and wrist injuries are understandably as scary as can be for hitters. Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner suffered a fracture in his left wrist when he was hit by a pitch late in spring training. Turner was out almost two months, and even when he returned he wasn't the dynamic offensive force he was last season.Turner, who went on the disabled list this week with a right groin strain, was hitting .259 with a .752 OPS, compared to .322 and .945 in 2017.Every injury is different. Every player is different. But until Judge is back in the lineup and looking like he has since he became maybe the Yankees' biggest star over the last year-and-a-half, the questions will remain.Judge initially stayed in the game after he was hit by a Jakob Junis pitch, but an MRI later revealed the chip fracture in his wrist.Elsa/Getty ImagesIn a week when the Yankees dealt with their pitching issues by first acquiring Zach Britton to add to an already-strong bullpen and then trading for J.A. Happ to shore up a questionable rotation, the Judge injury threatens to change the course of the rest of their season. That's not to say it will Justin Bour Jersey , because even without Judge the Yankees have an incredibly deep and powerful lineup (and in the one game they won without Judgeplaying, they hit two home runs and scored seven runs June 5 inToronto).But they only have one Aaron Judge. It's hard to know how his absence will affect them. It's impossible to know what he'll look like when he comes back. After announcing that Judge suffered a chip fracture when he was hit by a Jakob Junis pitch in Thursday's 7-2 Yankees win over the Kansas City Royals,the Yankees said surgery wasn't recommended and they "approximate a three-week time period before Judge can swing a bat in a game situation."Three weeks would mean Judge would miss 20 or so games, including four next weekend at Fenway Park against the Boston Red Sox. The Yankees gained a game on the first-place Red Sox on Thursday, but they're still 4.5 games back in the race to win the American League East and avoid the risk of a win-or-go-home Wild Card Game.For what it's worth, Judge has a .455 batting average in his nine games against the Red Sox this season, with four home runs and nine RBI. Not that it means he would have gotten any hits next weekend.The Yankees will hope they see more big swings from Judge later this season.Mike Ehrmann/Getty ImagesThe Yankees have plenty of big hitters. He leads the team with 26 home runs, but even if you took those away, the 137 hit by the rest of the Yankees would be nearly enough to lead the majors (the Los Angeles Angelsand Oakland A's are tied for second with 142 home runs).Yankees general manager Brian Cashman still has four days to go before the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline, but it's not like he can take away any uncertainty about Judge by adding another 6'7" slugger who is also a team leader. He could go get someone who can take some at-bats in the outfield until Judge returns, but he's notgoing to find another Judge.The Yankees are hardly the only team with uncertainty. The Red Sox added Nathan Eovaldi to their rotation, but another loss from blowing a late lead Thursday reminded everyone how much they need bullpen help. The Chicago Cubs are trying to deal with their own rotation questions by agreeing to trade for Cole Hamels, per Yahoo Sports' Jeff Passan, but they can't know what they'll get from 2016 National League MVP Kris Bryant. Bryant went back on the disabled list Thursday with what the team termed "left shoulder inflammation."A bad shoulder can make hitting tough, as Judge himself knows only too well. Judge spent the second half of the 2017 season dealing with a left shoulder sore enough that it required offseason surgery. In 46 games beginning immediately after the All-Star break, Judge hit just .176 with seven home runs.The Yankees went 26-20 in those 46 games http://www.marlinsfanproshop.com/authentic-starlin-castro-jersey , winning at almost exactly the same pace they did for the rest of the season. At least in that span, a diminished Judge didn't stop them.It might not this year, either. He might not even be that diminished when he returns from this chip fracture.We don't know. We can't know. And that's the one point that has to scare the Yankees just a bit right now.The Yankees season has been so smooth to this point, even though the Red Sox's equally smooth season has left winning a division title in doubt.Now there's uncertainty, 6'7" worth of uncertainty. And it won't be answered until we see Aaron Judge back in the batter's box, looking like himself. Danny Knobler covers Major League Baseball as a national columnist for Bleacher Report.Follow Danny on Twitter and talk baseball. NEW YORK (AP) — Their ace got booed off the mound, loudly. Their manager let things get out of hand. And their backup catcher wound up pitching.“It was an embarrassing day today,” New York Yankees shortstop Didi Gregorius said.Not much else to say after the Yankees absorbed the most-lopsided loss in their distinguished, 396-game postseason history, routed by the Boston Red Sox 16-1 Monday night in the AL Division Series.Now down 2-1 and in danger of being eliminated in the best-of-five matchup, they’ll turn to CC Sabathia on Tuesday night in hopes of saving their season. Rick Porcello starts for Boston.“No choice but to flush,” manager Aaron Boone said. “The good thing about today is it’s one game. And as awful of a night as it was for us, we got to turn the page. And tomorrow’s obviously do or die.”Luis Severino looked out of sorts from the start. There was a TBS report that he began to warm up only 10 minutes before the game began, but Boone insisted he had enough time to get ready. Severino also said there was no issue.“I always go to the bullpen 10 minutes before the game,” Severino said. “I warm up quickly.”The game fell apart quickly, too.Severino was tagged for six runs on seven hits and two walks in three-plus innings. Jeered as he walked to the dugout during a seven-run burst in the fourth Nick Wittgren Jersey , it soon was 10-0.By the seventh, the stands had started to empty. The fans who left early missed a bit of history — Austin Romine became just the second position player to pitch in a postseason game.The second-string catcher actually hit 90 mph with his fastball. And he squarely hit Brock Holt’s bat, and the result was a two-run homer in the ninth that gave Holt the first cycle in postseason history.“I was just trying to get it over the plate,” Romine said.Romine joined Toronto infielder Cliff Pennington, who pitched in the 2015 AL playoffs against Kansas City, as non-pitchers to take the hill at this time of year.“No, I didn’t envision myself getting into the playoffs in this role,” he said.Holt’s homer helped the Red Sox post the biggest rout of the Yankees in postseason play, surpassing Arizona’s 15-2 pasting in Game 6 of the 2001 World Series.A sellout crowd arrived early at Yankee Stadium, loudly chanting and cheering even before the teams lined up for pregame introductions. Clearly, no one rooting for the home team expected anything like this.Catcher Gary Sanchez dropped a pitch on a stolen base that set up Boston’s first run. Left fielder Andrew McCutchen was slow to retrieve a hit that proved costly. And Boone was slow to pull a struggling Severino, admitting he could’ve made the move sooner, rather than waiting until Boston loaded the bases in a hurry.“I mean, in hindsight because he didn’t get an out, sure,” Boone said.And when Boone did call for a reliever Julio Urias Jersey , he summoned a starter, Lance Lynn, rather than someone from the deep New York bullpen.Lynn promptly walked Mookie Betts on four pitches to force home a run that made it 4-0, then gave up a three-run double to Andrew Benintendi.“Lance had a little bit of trouble, obviously, coming in there. So it just turned into a really bad inning for us,” Boone said.It was a sharp turnaround for Severino.Severino started New York’s postseason with four shutout innings in the AL wild-card win over Oakland last Wednesday. The performance also alleviated fears in the Bronx — temporarily, anyway — the 24-year-old righty had put past playoff troubles behind him.Instead, coming off a career-high 19 wins, he exited with a 1-2 record and a 6.26 ERA in six postseason starts.“Of course, I’m disappointed,” Severino said.