Aaron Judge will sit out the New York Yankees' Saturday home game against the Philadelphia Phillies with "an elbow issue," manager Aaron Boone told reporters.

Aaron Judge is not in the New York Yankees' Saturday lineup against the Philadelphia Phillies due to an "elbow issue," manager Aaron Boone said. According to Boone, Judge had an issue throwing the ball from the outfield during Friday's series opener. He was taken for imaging, and the team is currently awaiting the results.

J.T. Realmuto followed the Yankees' ninth error in four games with a tiebreaking, three-run drive in a four-run seventh inning, lifting the Phillies over New York 12-5 on Friday night.

The New York Yankees' recent struggles continued on Friday night in a 12-5 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies that in which they committed two more errors, giving them nine in their last four games.

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The Yankees will be without their Captain to begin Saturday's game, as Aaron Judge was not in the lineup against the Phillies and left-handed starter Ranger Suárez. No initial reason was given for Judge's absence,

To their credit, the Yankees — who are now 5 1/2 back in the division — are already getting aggressive ahead of the July 31 trade deadline. New York acquired Colorado Rockies third baseman Ryan McMahon for two pitching prospects on Friday, and the 30-year-old is expected to make his Yankees debut on Saturday afternoon.

The Yankees have had a need for a third baseman since releasing DJ LeMahieu and moving Jazz Chisholm back to the keystone. As of late, manager Aaron Boone has used a combination of Oswald Peraza and Jorbit Vivas at the hot corner. Clearly New York, now 4 ½ games back in the American League East, was not satisfied with that arrangement.

It hasn’t been easy for the Yankees since the All-Star break. They split the first six games, and they left Toronto on Wednesday with a bad taste in their mouths because they didn’t gain any ground on the first-place Blue Jays in the American League East race.

Minutes after the Yankees lost an ugly contest to the Blue Jays on Wednesday night, Aaron Judge said that he still believes he’s on a great team. Never mind that the Bombers made four errors in the 8-4 defeat.