Yankees: Aaron Judge scoring from first vs Boston was utterly terrifying

We’re not sure how Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge was able to go all out so quickly.

The Yankees have a plan, and we understand it: Get Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton ready for the playoffs, by any means necessary.

If it means staggered days off, then that’s what it means. If we need to play a little station-to-station baseball sometimes, or we need to perhaps institute jogging on grounders instead of an all-out sprint, that’s alright, too. It’s only a week or so of games. Fans will get over it.

Of course, there’s already been what was deemed to be a “failed” rehab from Judge once this year, whose initial comeback lasted just a single game in Atlanta before he went back on the shelf with the same injury once more. So, while the team is being cautious with Stanton, who’s been quite emotional at times this year regarding his battle with soft tissue problems, they’re being outright maniacal about Judge’s fitness.

Which made it so stunning to see him sprint around from first base … relatively effortlessly (?) on a Stanton double into the left-field corner in the eighth.

Watching it live, you couldn’t even guarantee that was a ball that would score a fully-healthy Judge. We’ve seen stop signs in similar situations before.

To see Judge enter into his gazelle-like gait and slide in safely with relative ease had our jaws on the floor, and our hearts beating a few hundred extra times per minute.

Of course, this wasn’t the only time in this extra-innings marathon where Judge tested himself. In the 10th inning, he barreled towards the right field tiny wall at Fenway to catch a looper hit against Aroldis Chapman, and slammed shoulder-first into what could be generously called padding.

Apparently, he was unscathed enough to stay in the ballgame.

If we know the Yankees, then they have a fairly detailed memo for exactly how to handle every step that Judge and Stanton take for the remainder of the season.

We’re surprised “full-on sprint from first” was allowed, but we’re shocked “the entire length of a Fenway marathon” also made the list.

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