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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. 


  Harrison Bader has had a number of injuries this season. AP Harrison Bader has had a number of injuries this season. AP

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.

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