New York Yankees: Its the biggest circus I’ve ever seen in my life” says Aaron Judge after what happened in..
Aaron Judge was struggling when we last checked in on him on April 24, hitting just.180/.315/.348 in the Yankees’ first 24 games. With just three home runs, he was producing close to league average, mostly because of his 15.7% walk rate. When he struck out in each of his four plate appearances on his own bobblehead day at Yankee Stadium, a small portion of the crowd jeered him, and many who were critical of him on social media believed he had been duped. Since then, he has drastically improved his season, shredding the pitching of his opponents, rising to the top of several important leaderboards, and assisting New York in compiling the best record in the AL (42-19).
This past weekend, Judge helped the Yankees to a sweep of a three-game series at Oracle Park against the Giants, hitting three home runs. Playing at the field of his beloved boyhood team for the first time, it was also the ballpark that the native of Linden, California would have called home had Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner’s desperate attempt to re-sign him in December 2022 failed. He scored two runs off Logan Webb in a 7-3 victory on Saturday, marking his third-longest of the season, and went yard twice off Jordan Hicks in Friday night’s 6-2 victory, first with a three-run shot and then again on a solo one. He only managed to go two for three, scoring two runs on walks and