Getting drilled in the left elbow cost Anthony Volpe one start, but the Yankees believed that would be all.
The everyday shortstop was out of the lineup for Saturday’s game against the Red Sox in The Bronx after leaving Friday’s win before the start of the fourth inning.
Oswald Peraza started his second game of the season at shortstop.
Aaron Boone said he originally had penciled Volpe into the lineup, but as Volpe received treatment from trainers, there was “pretty good-sized swelling in there still,” Boone said.
The trainers’ opinion was that “it would do him well to try and get him one more day and just get a lot of treatment in there,” the Yankees manager said. “Hopefully be back in there [Sunday].”
The Yankees routinely rest many around the field, but not Volpe.
He had played 61 of the first 62 games of the season, only sitting after hurting his shoulder diving for a ball in early May.
Volpe — in excellent shape, 24 years old, having played in 319 of a possible 324 games in his first two major league seasons and having a career year — has been a workhouse shortstop who said Friday that he expected to play Saturday, an expectation not met because of the trainers and Boone.
He was pulled Friday after his non-throwing, unpadded elbow absorbed an 88.8 mph changeup from Walker Buehler in the second inning.
Volpe played one frame defensively before his swollen elbow forced him from the game and into X-rays and CT scans, which came back negative.
