Yankees' Jazz Chisholm Jr. said he'd be back from injured list as soon as possible, and he was right 

Not long after the Yankees placed Jazz Chisholm Jr. on the 10-day injured list on Aug. 13 with a left elbow sprain, the outfielder/third baseman said he was “100%” sure he’d be back at the end of those 10 days.

An amused Aaron Boone at the time called that an “aggressive” timeline given by the excitable Chisholm, not yet schooled in the Yankee Way of providing generally vague answers in public when it comes to injuries.

Chisholm turned out to be right.

The club’s headline trade-deadline acquisition, whose bat gave the lineup an instant spark and who more than held his own at third base, a position he had never played professionally before joining the Yankees, was returned from the IL Friday night. Chisholm started at third and batted fifth against the Rockies.

“Scary situation there in Chicago initially,” Boone said Friday, referencing the game against the White Sox on Aug. 12 when a sliding Chisholm hurt the elbow on a play at the plate. “But he’s responded great, and he’s been chomping at the bit, really, all week to get back in there. Everything we’ve put him through, he’s handled really well. Excited to get him back in there.”

Even with the injury occurring to Chisholm’s non-throwing arm, elbow injuries are almost always tricky, the reason teams generally take a conservative approach. Boone said in this case, it wasn’t warranted.

“He was showing all the signs that we needed to see to give him the go-ahead to get back out there,” Boone said. “Feel really good about where he’s at. Just watching him move around, watching him swing, [he] looks really good.”

Before suffering the injury, Chisholm hit .316 with seven homers, 11 RBIs and a 1.063 OPS in 14 games.

Welcome back

Veteran umpire Hunter Wendelstedt worked his first game at Yankee Stadium behind the plate since April 22, when, in a game against the A’s, he ejected Aaron Boone in the first inning for something a fan sitting directly behind the home dugout yelled. Though Wendelstedt denied that was the case while speaking with a pool reporter, video provided fairly clear evidence to the contrary. Hence, Boone was spared the fine that typically comes with any ejection (that figure can alternate depending how long any player, coach or manager stays on the field after an ejection, how volatile the language is, etc.).

Weekend rotation set

Boone said rookie righthander Will Warren, brought up earlier in the week when Luis Gil went to the IL with a lower back strain, will start Saturday afternoon’s game, followed by Marcus Stroman on Sunday. Warren has made three spot starts in the last month, going 0-1 with an 8.59 ERA, but rival scouts have noted that his stuff has looked considerably better than the latter number suggests.

No. 49 for Judge

Aaron Judge hit his 49th homer of the season to give the Yankees a 3-0 lead in the sixth inning Friday night. Judge has hit five homers in the last four games and seven in the last eight. He has 43 homers and 100 RBIs in his last 92 games.