BREAKING: Judge have hit (MLB)-leading 41st home run, while Volpe and Grisham also homered as the New York Yankees defeated the …..
With Aaron Judge’s 41st home run leading the major leagues, the New York Yankees defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 8-3 on Saturday. “We’re watching greatness. So you try not to take that for granted,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “Try to appreciate every now and then what we have.” Anthony Volpe and Trent Grisham, the team’s No. 9 batter, also hit two-run home runs off José Berríos, helping Carlos Rodón (12-7) earn his third consecutive victory after going 0-5 in his previous six starts. Austin Wells and Volpe each had an RBI single for the Yankees, who began the day tied with Baltimore for the top spot in the AL East.
For the first time since 1917, New York had lost sixteen of their previous twenty-two home games. As promised by Boone, Yankees second baseman Gleyber Torres, who was benched on Friday for not sprinting hard, was back in the starting lineup. Torres recorded a single, a walk, and went 1 for 4. In the fifth inning, Volpe hit a home run that increased the score 6-1. He beat a tag at second base with a headfirst slide.
For Toronto, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. launched a solo home run in the opening inning and came up just short of completing a triple. He is taking a batting position.525 has five home runs in 12 games this season versus the Yankees, including nine home runs during a 16-game hitting streak that is a season high. After Juan Soto singled in the first inning on a 3-0 pitch, Judge drove a 426-foot ball into the left-center field bullpen of the Blue Jays, tying his career best of 103 RBIs. Rodón declared, “He’s the best hitter in the game.” “Every at-bat, you have to watch it.” Judge has six home runs in his previous eight games, including a two-run blast in the opening inning on Friday. 16 of his home runs have come in the opening inning
Judge has six home runs in his previous eight games, including a two-run blast in the opening inning on Friday. With 16 home runs in the opening inning, he has tied Babe Ruth’s (1927) record for the most by a Yankees player in a season. Alex Rodríguez’s (2001) big league record is now two behind his own. It seems unreal. When you hear any of the legends that surround this stadium and building, you have to admit that some of their accomplishments are nearly unbelievable, Judge said. It is therefore quite an honor to be named among those folks in any kind of category, sentence, or anything else. John Schneider, the manager of Toronto, described Judge’s outstanding statistics as “comical” before the game.
Schneider intentionally walked Judge in the second inning with two outs and no one on base, with his team behind 4-1. This decision was met with jeers from the 40,218 spectators. This was the first intentional walk of a hitter in the opening two innings of a game since 1972, according to Major League Baseball. To be honest, I didn’t want to watch him swing. That was basically it, according to Schneider. “With just one hit, he can completely change the course of a game, I believe it puts him in a separate category than everyone else in the league.” Toronto threw to Judge in a similar scenario in the fourth inning, and he struck out against Berríos (9-9). Following a mistake by second baseman Spencer Horwitz
Rodón pitched 106 pitches on a 90-degree afternoon, giving up just three hits and striking out eight in 5 1/3 innings. “Just an even mixture,” he remarked. “Merely attempting to assault the zone.” After Alejandro Kirk singled twice off of Jake Cousins, the Yankees bullpen held firm. With the bases loaded, Clay Holmes recorded his 23rd save out of 31 opportunities by striking out George Springer. It is New York’s longest string since September 2021 as they have scored five runs or more in eight straight games. With regard to his lineup, Boone remarked, “I feel confident about really every slot right now.” “The men are making a contribution.” In the middle of the seventh inning, plate umpire Laz Diaz dismissed Blue Jays pitcher Kevin Gausman, who had begun on Friday.