For the first time in a while, Aaron Judge won’t be a designated hitter.

The New York Yankees superstar is returning to right field for the first time since July 25 in Friday’s game against the Toronto Blue Jays.

Judge hit the 10-day injured list with a right elbow injury a day later. He returned Aug. 5 but has yet to play the field.

The slugger may have sustained the injury in a late-July series in Toronto when he winced after catching Alejandro Kirk’s seventh-inning fly in the right-field corner and throwing to second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. as Bo Bichette tagged up and went from second to third. Judge was shown on YES Network clenching his right hand in a fist.

“He had a throw in Toronto where it zinged him, it hurt,” manager Aaron Boone said. • Watch Blue Jays vs. Yankees on Sp

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