NEW YORK (AP) — New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge is out of the starting lineup for Tuesday's game against Cleveland because of a bone bruise in his upper right rib that he feels in his right shoulder, and he might miss a few days.
“He’s been kind of the last couple of weeks kind of dealing with some shoulder soreness, just kind of more nagging,” manager Aaron Boone said before the series opener against the Guardians. “Then over the weekend, the last couple of games in Sacramento, I think it became a little more than just that, where I noticed with some swings and stuff. It became a little more than just nagging. I think it was affecting him.”
Boone said tests on the team's off day on Monday revealed the bruise and Judge was scheduled to meet with a team doctor later Tuesday.
Judge is hitting .248 and 17 homers and 38 RBIs. The three-time AL MVP has one homer in his last 18 games since May 10 and ended an 11-game homer and RBI drought with a game-ending, two-run drive in the ninth inning to give the Yankees a 2-0 win over Tampa Bay on May 24.
Judge entered the game against Tampa Bay in a 1-for-24 slump that dropped his batting average to .246. He was hitless in 15 at-bats before singling in the first inning.
“I think probably something that’s been affecting him a little bit here recently, especially this weekend,” Boone said. “So, hopefully, it is something that we just get calmed down here and put it behind us.”
Judge won the batting title last season when he batted a career-high .331 with 53 homers and 114 RBIs in 152 games. He missed 10 games from July 26-Aug. 4 with a flexor strain in his right elbow sustained on a throw to home July 22 in Toronto. He underwent a plasma-rich injection and did not require offseason surgery, though he did not return to the outfield until Sept. 5.
When Judge was hurt last season, Giancarlo Stanton played 17 games in the outfield. Stanton has been out since April 24 with a strained right calf.
On Tuesday, José Caballero made his 22nd career start in right field and third since being acquired from Tampa Bay at the July 31 trade deadline.
Judge had started 52 of New York's first 59 games in right field. Rookie Spencer Jones made four starts in right field before getting sent down May 23 and Cody Bellinger has started two games.
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New York Yankees' Aaron Judge bats during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Athletics, Saturday, May 30, 2026, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Marshall)
New York Yankees' Aaron Judge reacts after drawing a bases loaded walk to score a run during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Athletics Saturday, May 30, 2026, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Marshall)
PARIS (AP) — Marta Kostyuk, the best player on clay this season and a vocal supporter of Ukraine amid the war with Russia, will play her first major semifinal at the French Open against a Russian.
Kostyuk won an intense all-Ukraine quarterfinal against Elina Svitolina 6-3, 2-6, 6-2 on Tuesday. That set up Kostyuk against Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva, who thumped Romanian veteran Sorana Cirstea 6-0, 6-3.
In men’s play, 20-year-old Jakub Mensik ended the run of Brazil's Joao Fonseca with a 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (3) victory.
“It was one of my best performances so far,” Mensik said.
The 19-year-old Fonseca beat 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic in five sets in the third round and then eliminated two-time runner-up Casper Ruud in the fourth round.
Mensik collapsed to the clay with cramps upon edging Mariano Navone in a fifth-set tiebreaker in the second round and also needed five sets to advance in the fourth round against Andrey Rublev.
For a place in Sunday’s final, Mensik will face second-seeded Alexander Zverev, the 2024 runner-up, who beat rising Spanish player Rafael Jodar 7-6 (3), 6-1, 6-3.
Kostyuk leads Andreeva 2-0 on the tour; the second win in the Madrid final a month ago. Kostyuk didn’t shake hands at the net, following protocol for Ukrainians with opponents from Russia and its ally Belarus since the war started four years ago.
“We had a very difficult night again in Ukraine, especially in Kyiv, so many people dead,” Kostyuk said. "I want to give this match to Ukrainian people and to their resilience. Slava Ukraini! (Glory to Ukraine!)”
Russia launched hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles against Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities overnight, killing at least 18 civilians and wounding more than 100 others, authorities said Tuesday.
“I texted my family if they were OK. This is pretty much all I can do,” Kostyuk said. “The biggest thing I can do is sit here and talk about it so more people can find out about it so they don’t get used to this terrible life.”
Svitolina said friends in Ukraine told her about the attacks just hours before the match.
“Just very sad that we all have to really put up with this heaviness and pain every single day, and scared moments not knowing what’s going to bring the next day,” Svitolina said.
She will leave Roland Garros to look after the daughter she has with French tennis player Gael Monfils, but will be cheering on Kostyuk.
“Hopefully she can get the title,” Svitolina said. “It’s going to be massive for Ukraine.”
No. 7-seeded Svitolina got off to a slow start but worked her way back, matching No. 15 Kostyuk’s power from the baseline. Kostyuk was better on the important points in the decider and improved her impressive 2026 record on clay to 17-0.
She's the first Ukrainian woman to reach the semifinals at Roland Garros in the Open era since 1968. Svitolina has reached the semis at the other three Grand Slams but failed for the sixth time to win a French Open quarterfinal.
Andreeva will appear in her second French Open semifinal, two years after the first. She was asked about the challenges of playing a Ukrainian in wartime.
“Well, for me it doesn’t matter who I play,” Andreeva said. “I really try to play against the ball that is coming at me. Usually it doesn’t matter to me who I’m playing against, so I’m trying to really focus on the game and on the game plan.”
Asked whether she found it frustrating to hear Russian opponents avoiding the issue, Kostyuk said she wished “there was some more clear stance on what’s going on.”
“Especially when your country is killing other people,” she added. “I don’t know how you can sleep at night peacefully when you know that this is going on, and you have nothing to say about it.”
After a week of hot weather, rain arrived in Paris and play started and finished under the closed roof of Court Philippe-Chatrier. Competing in the quarterfinals for the first time in 17 years, Cirstea struggled to find her rhythm against her 19-year-old rival.
The 36-year-old veteran, playing the final season of her career, immediately dropped her serve. She didn't hold serve or win a game until the first game of the second set. Andreeva’s deep, accurate groundstrokes and charges to the net took a toll on 18th-seeded Cirstea, whose attempt to come back was shortlived.
“I felt like it was one of my best matches so far this tournament,” Andreeva said. “Super happy to be back in semis.”
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Czech Republic's Jakub Mensik returns to Brazil's Joao Fonseca during the quarterfinal tennis match at the French Open in Paris, Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Emma Da Silva)
Germany's Alexander Zverev reacts after winning the quarterfinal tennis match against Spain's Rafael Jodar at the French Open in Paris, Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)
Fans hold Ukrainian flag during the quarterfinal tennis match between Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk and Ukraine's Elina Svitolina at the French Open in Paris, Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)
Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk hugs Ukraine's Elina Svitolina after the quarterfinal tennis match at the French Open in Paris, Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)
Fans wear Ukranina flags after the quarterfinal tennis match between Ukraine's Elina Svitolina and Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk at the French Open in Paris, Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk reacts after winning the quarterfinal tennis match against Ukraine's Elina Svitolina at the French Open in Paris, Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)
Russia's Mirra Andreeva reacts during the quarterfinal tennis match against Romania's Sorana Cirstea at the French Open in Paris, Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)
Romania's Sorana Cirstea returns to Russia's Mirra Andreeva during the quarterfinal tennis match at the French Open in Paris, Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)
Russia's Mirra Andreeva retruns to Romania's Sorana Cirstea during the quarterfinal tennis match at the French Open in Paris, Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)
