The injury bug has bitten several Yankees players more than once this season, but no one could’ve predicted a team staffer falling ill from an actual bug bite.

Pat Murtaugh, a pro scout for the Yankees, is lucky to be alive after suffering a black widow bite a few weeks ago that nearly turned into a life-threatening bloodstream infection, which could’ve caused his organs to fail.

But not even an emergency surgery derailed the scout, who has nearly 30 years of experience, from doing his job as the Yankees pursue their 28th World Series title.

“I just thought I’d been standing too long, so I did some squats and stretched out a little bit,” Murtaugh told Yahoo Sports of when he first felt something on the inside of his left thigh. “When I woke up the next day, I had a knot on the inside of my thigh, but there wasn’t any discoloration or anything like that.”

He met with a team trainer and then was examined by a doctor in Phoenix, but because the bite hadn’t discolored yet no one could identify the bizarre mark. When Murtaugh flew to Tennessee for his next minor-league game, his condition escalated.

The spot on his thigh was now a dark circle and he was experiencing flu-like symptoms, including a stiff neck and achy joints, according to Yahoo. The following morning he felt worse than ever, the dark circle had gotten larger and his wife told him to get it checked out again.

“They took my blood right away, and then the doctor came in, put her gloves on and looked at my thigh,” Murtaugh said of his experience at the urgent care in Kingsport, Tenn. “She looked at it for about a minute and said, ‘Sir, this is so deep in your tissue that I’m not going to touch it. I’m going to call a surgeon.’

“And I’m like, ‘What?!’”

The doctor asked Murtaugh if he could do an outpatient surgery at 1 p.m. that day. And just like that Murtaugh was on his way to the hospital for a 45-minute surgery to cut out the venomous infection.

“The doctor told me things got worse with altitude when I was flying,” Murtaugh said. “I was close to becoming septic.”

Following the surgery, Murtaugh went right back to work and was scouting another minor-league game later that night.

“My leg was numb, but I felt fine physically because I didn’t have the flu-like symptoms anymore,” Murtaugh said. “A lot of people think I was crazy, but that’s just what scouts do. They keep on trucking.”

Murtaugh is recovering well from the surgery and his regular doctor in Indiana gave him a clean bill of health.

“It ended up healing,” he said. “Today, it’s probably as good as it’s been.”