Manny Machado hurt his right knee while swinging against the New York Yankees on Monday night and had to be helped off the field.

The Baltimore Orioles described the injury as a right knee sprain and said he would undergo an MRI Tuesday.

"We'll just wait for the results," Machado said. "Hopefully it is on the good side other than the bad."

Batting in the third inning, Machado twisted his knee while hitting a broken-bat grounder to shortstop. He dropped in a heap in the batter's box and gripped his knee in obvious pain.

Machado missed the first month of the season while recovering from surgery on his left knee.

"If you've been through what he'd kind of been through in the past, that initial feeling is pretty negative," Buck Showalter said, "but the doctors have looked at it and everything. He's getting some best-case scenarios that we're going to dwell on until the MRI says something different."