Yankees Add Aaron Judge and Two Others to Covid-19 Injured List

M.L.B. also conducted tests of players and other personnel at the All-Star Game, and the league said it did not record any positive tests.

For the Yankees, however, this is the second coronavirus outbreak in two months. In May, nine people, mostly coaches, tested positive. Gleyber Torres, the Yankees shortstop, also tested positive at the time but only missed seven games. But his case was unique because he tested both positive and negative on alternating days, leading M.L.B.’s experts to determine that he had such a mild case that the threat of him shedding the virus and spreading it was very low.

Boone indicated that was not the case with any of the six recent cases.

“I’m expecting them in most cases to be that 10 days, or 10 days plus,” he said.

Judge has 21 home runs, 13 doubles and a .901 on-base plus slugging percentage. Urshela has 11 home runs, 14 doubles and a .756 O.P.S. The Yankees, who trailed the Red Sox by eight games in the American League East heading into Friday’s game, also placed infielder Luke Voit on the 10-day injured list, retroactive to July 13, with left knee inflammation that originated with a bone bruise, Boone said.

The team called up Chris Gittens, Hoy Park, Greg Allen and the catcher Rob Brantly from the minor leagues.

“That’s our reality right now,” Boone said of the team playing short-handed against Boston without Judge and Urshela. “We have to go make the best of it. Those are two obviously great players, really important for what we do. We have to make do with what we have.”

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