Aaron Judge’s bat woke up. He made a fantastic leaping grab in the outfield. But it was the play he didn’t come up with that will haunt him this offseason. He was unable to come up with a Tommy Edman line drive with a runner on and nobody out in the fifth inning, an error … Read more
In the seventh inning of Game Two of the American League Championship Series, between the New York Yankees and the Cleveland Guardians, on Tuesday night, Aaron Judge saw a ninety-five-mile-an-hour fastball, up around his chest, and smacked a two-run home run. Afterward, he said that the ghosts of Yankees legends had pulled the ball through … Read more
The Red Sox missed. Aaron Judge did not. Hours before Sunday’s game, Boston manager Alex Cora suggested his team had thrown at Judge a day prior with a fastball that went behind the slugger’s legs. During the ensuing game, Judge blistered a 445-foot tank to center field that might have sent a message but definitely … Read more
CHICAGO – Aaron Judge is Mr. 300, quicker than anyone else. The Yankees captain crushed his 300th career home run on Wednesday night at Guaranteed Rate Field, becoming the fastest player in major league history – both by games and at-bats – to reach the milestone. It took Judge just 955 games to reach 300 … Read more
Luis Severino had hoped to face his former team when the Yankees and Mets face each other at Citi Field next week, but the right-hander was bumped and will pitch Sunday against the Cubs, in Chicago instead. While Severino was disappointed, one longtime former teammate was not. “I’d rather not face him,” Aaron Judge said … Read more
The last time the Yankees saw the Orioles, they were left looking up at them in the AL East after a tough showing in Baltimore at the beginning of May. Seven weeks later, the two best teams in the American League will meet again for another showdown series beginning on Tuesday in The Bronx, giving … Read more
SAN DIEGO — Juan Soto started the party in his return to Petco Park, and then Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton followed his lead in the same inning. Soto and Judge crushed back-to-back home runs and one single later, Stanton clobbered a two-run shot as the Yankees went bombs away on Yu Darvish for a … Read more
In a rare acknowledgment of a regret, manager Aaron Boone said he “probably” should have brought in a different reliever in the eighth inning of Tuesday’s eventual 6-3 loss to the Mariners in The Bronx. Clayton Andrews, who had been called up a day earlier when Ian Hamilton was placed on the seven-day COVID-19 injured … Read more
Shota Imanaga of Team Japan pitches during the 2023 World Baseball Classic Championship game between Team USA and Team Japan at loanDepot Park on Tuesday, March 21, 2023, in Miami, Fla. Rob Tringali/MLB Photos via Getty Images The recent rumors surrounding 30-year-old Japanese pitching prospect Shota Imanaga have been enough to give any San Francisco Giants fan … Read more
