Rice out of starting lineup day after exiting with bruised hand

First baseman Ben Rice is out of the Yankees' starting lineup for their finale against the Orioles on Monday, a day after he exited an 11-3 win early with a left hand contusion.

Rice, who took a low pickoff attempt from Max Fried in the third inning Sunday, was considered day to day after X-rays on his hand came back negative.

“It’s a little sore,” Rice said. “I thought the throw [from Fried] was going to be a little lower than it was. I went down and thought it would be in the dirt. Then it kind of stayed up in the end. I caught it poorly. It kind of hit in the palm.”

Earlier in the game, Rice gave the Yankees a 1-0 lead with a first-inning home run, his 12th of the season.

Here's how the Yankees will line up Monday night as they look to improve on their AL-best 23-11 record:

1) Trent Grisham, CF
2) Aaron Judge, RF
3) Cody Bellinger, LF
4) Jasson Domínguez, DH
5) Jazz Chisholm Jr., 2B
6) Paul Goldschmidt, 1B
7) Austin Wells, C
8) Ryan McMahon, 3B
9) José Caballero, SS

Rice and Aaron Judge, who hit his 13th homer Sunday, became the fifth pair of teammates in history with 12-plus homers each through the first 34 games of the season. They joined the Yankees’ Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra in 1956, the Braves’ Eddie Mathews and Hank Aaron in 1959, the Rockies’ Ellis Burks and Andres Galarraga in 1994 and Cleveland’s Paul Sorrento and Manny Ramirez in 1995.

The 27-year-old Rice leads the American League with a .343 average and 30 runs scored while pacing the Majors in OBP (.455) and slugging percentage (.759).