Aaron Judge leads Yankees to historic home run frenzy
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Judge hit three home runs on Saturday, and he has one in Sunday's game as well.
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Aaron Judge combined with Paul Goldschmidt and Cody Bellinger to go deep on the first three pitches from Nestor Cortes, then hit two more homers as the New York Yankees set a team record with nine hom...
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The Yankees are making home run history on their season-opening homestand, and not surprisingly, Aaron Judge is leading the charge.
In the bottom of the first inning of the series finale, Judge unloaded a two-run shot off Brewers starter Aaron Civale to give the Yankees an early 2–1 lead. In doing so, he set
9: The nine home runs set a single-game franchise record and marked only the third instance in MLB history that a team homered nine times. The Yankees finished one shy of the MLB record, set by the Toronto Blue Jays when they hit 10 homers on Sept. 14, 1987.
New York's first three homers came off the first three pitches of the game -- an MLB record -- as Judge later hit a grand slam and finished with eight RBI
Following Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees' franchise record nine-home-run performance on Saturday, Judge said that while "nobody can replace" former teammate Juan Soto, the team did a solid job filling the void that he left when he signed with the New York Mets.
Judge followed his home run off Cortes in the first with a grand slam in the third and a solo shot in the fourth, both against Milwaukee reliever Connor Thomas. The 26-year-old lefty surrendered eight runs in two innings of work, coming on for Cortes who also gave up eight runs in two innings.
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The New York Yankees — and their unusual-looking new bats — made an absolute statement on Saturday by launching nine (9!) home runs in a 20-9 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers at Yankee Stadium.
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