Anthony Volpe exits Friday's Yankees-Red Sox game after being hit on elbow

Yankees shortstop Anthony Volpe exited Friday night’s 9-6 win over the Boston Red Sox after he was hit by a pitch on the left elbow.

The team announced Volpe was lifted with a left elbow contusion and was undergoing X-rays and CT scans, which manager Aaron Boone said came back negative.

“Good news,” the manager said after the game. “Little stiff and sore. But hopefully nothing that keeps him out for very long.”

Volpe said he was “definitely optimistic” about the prognosis and expects to be in the lineup for Saturday night’s game.

“Knowing that it’s structurally sound and just gotta get the swelling out,” the shortstop said, adding later that once the adrenaline wore off, the swelling had gotten pretty big.

Batting for the second time of the game, Volpe was dinged by an 88.8 mph changeup from Walker Buehler on his left elbow. The hit-by pitch drove in a run, to put the Yanks up 7-0 in the second inning, and Volpe was in immediate discomfort, grabbing his hand and wrist area.

Volpe was examined by the team trainer for a long while as he walked slowly up the first baes line and then for a period while at the bag. But the 24-year-old was able to stay in the game to run the bases.

He was back out there the next half inning at shortstop, but when the top of the fourth inning began, Oswald Peraza had replaced him on the left side of the diamond.

Volpe finished the day 1-for-1 with three RBI after he smacked a two-out opposite-field home run in the home half of the first.

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