No timeline on Judge’s return from toe injury

Two days after the New York Yankees said

Aaron Judge possibly could start baseball activities this weekend, the slugger said he has a torn ligament in his right big toe and is not quite ready.

Judge was hurt June 3 when he crashed into the right-field wall at Dodger Stadium while making a catch on a J.D. Martinez fly ball. The injury, unusual for a baseball player, makes it hard for Judge to predict his progress.

“I don’t think too many people have torn a ligament in their toe,” Judge said before Saturday’s game against Texas. “If it was a quad, we’d have a better answer. If it’s an oblique or hamstring, we got timelines for that. With how unique this injury is and it being my back foot, which I push off of and run off of, it’s a tough spot.”

Judge did rehab work in a pool Wednesday and was hoping to progress to throwing and light hitting. Manager Aaron Boone had said the slugger might begin those activities by the end of the weekend.

New York is 12-16 this season with Judge on the injured list and 7-10 since the AL

MVP was injured as Ron Marinaccio retired

Marcus Semien on a game-ending popup with two on in the ninth inning as the Yankees beat the visiting Rangers, 1-0.

Billy McKinney hit his fourth homer since he was brought up two weeks ago to replace Judge. McKinney has reached base in all 15 games with the Yankees this season.

Luis Severino (1-2) allowed five hits in six innings, and four relievers finished the Yankees’ fifth shutout.

Blake Street blues

Mike Trout, Brandon Drury, and Matt Thaiss hit home runs on consecutive pitches to open a 13-run third inning for the Angels in a 25-1 rout of the Rockies in Colorado.

Trout hit a 451-foot homer to center field off Colorado starter Chase Anderson. Drury hit the next pitch for a 437-foot homer to left center, and Thaiss followed with a 399-foot homer to right.

The Angels’ 13 runs in the third inning tied a team record. The 10 hits fell one short of a record, as were the team’s 23 total bases. They followed up with eight more runs in the fourth and finished with 28 hits as a team.

Lyles pitches Royals past Rays

Jordan Lyles ended a 15-game winless streak and the lowly Royals beat the Rays, 9-4, in St. Petersburg, Fla., for their second win in three days against the team with the MLB’s best record.

Lyles (1-11) allowed four runs and eight hits over six innings in his first victory since his final start last year while playing for the Orioles. The 15-game stretch marked the longest winless streak to begin a season in MLB history, according to ESPN.

Rays shortstop Wander Franco returned after being benched for two games for how he was handled frustrating situations this season and hit a 417-foot solo homer during a two-run first.

Cubs clip Cardinals in London

Ian Happ hit two solo home runs, Justin Steele struck out eight, and the Cubs beat the Cardinals, 9-1, in Major League Baseball’s pandemic-delayed return to London.

Happ led off the second inning with a drive to straightaway center and put another

Adam Wainwright pitch over the right-field fence in the third as the Cubs won their fourth straight game. Wainwright (3-2) allowed 11 hits — one short of his career high — and a season-high seven runs.

A crowd of 54,662, MLB’s largest this season, filled London Stadium, some singing

“Go Cubs Go.”

Reds’ win streak snapped

Cincinnati’s longest winning streak in 66 years was stopped at 12 games when Raisel Iglesias struck out Jonathan India for the final out as Atlanta prevailed, 7-6, in an eight-homer slugfest.

Matt Olson hit the 200th of his big league career and Travis d’Arnaud and Ozzie Albies also went deep off Graham Ashcraft (3-6), who allowed three long balls for the first time in 33 big league starts. Marcell Ozuna homered against Alex Young as the Braves won for the ninth time in 10 games.

McClanahan start postponed

The next start for Rays ace Shane McClanahan was pushed back after he left Thursday’s game due to mid-back tightness. Originally set to start Wednesday at Arizona, the 26-year-old lefthander will take the mound Friday against Seattle . . . Cardinals righthander Jack Flaherty has been scratched from his scheduled start Sunday because of hip tightness. Flaherty (4-5, 4.95 ERA) had been set to face the Cubs at London Stadium . . . Righthander Chad Kuhl was cut by the Nationals when the team recalled righthander Paolo Espino from Triple A Rochester.