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Yankees manager Joe Girardi finally has run out of patience waiting and waiting and waiting for rookie right fielder Aaron Judge to hit his way out of a second-half slump.

A first big drastic decision was made Monday:

Judge was benched for the Yankees' series opener against the Cleveland Indians at Yankee Stadium and he's probably going to sit out Tuesday night's game against the Tribe as well.

http://www.nj.com/yankees/index.ssf/...now_for_2.html