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. APBader 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.






