ANAHEIM, Calif. — Injury was added to insult for the Yankees on Wednesday.
Harrison Bader left their 7-3 loss to the Angels before the bottom of the sixth inning after he was drilled in the lower back by a 95 mph sinker from reliever Jose Soriano in the top of the inning.
Initial testing from a fluoroscope was negative, and the Yankees called the injury a left posterior rib contusion.
Bader will undergo a battery of additional tests, including an X-ray and CT scan, to determine if he will have to miss time.
“I’m OK,” said Bader, who had a welt the size of a baseball on his back. “Obviously got blown up there, so just a little sore. It just tightened up on me.
“Didn’t feel it was best to keep going as a result of how it tightened up.”
Bader stayed on the ground briefly after the plunking, and was tended to by manager Aaron Boone and a trainer. But he remained in the game to run the bases before Isiah Kiner-Falefa replaced him in center field to start the bottom of the sixth.
Bader has already been on the injured list twice this year. He missed the beginning of the season with a strained oblique that he suffered in spring training before going back on the IL in late May with a strained hamstring.
