Yankees' Aaron Judge: Two homers, three RBI in win
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Judge went 4-for-5 with two home runs, a double and three RBI in Tuesday's 5-4 win over the Orioles.
Judge doubled and drove in DJ LeMahieu in the first inning before launching two solo homers and adding a single later in the contest. The outfielder now has a league-leading 14 homers this season, five of which have come in the last week. Judge is batting .345 with eight long balls, 17 RBI, 14 runs and a stolen base over 55 at-bats in the month of May. The 30-year-old is having a monster start to the season and has compiled a .315 batting average and .692 slugging percentage over 130 at-bats, both of which are career bests.
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Yankees' Aaron Judge: Resting Monday
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Judge will get the day off Monday in Baltimore.
Judge sits for the first time in the month of May. He owns a 1.059 OPS for the month thus far, improving on his already excellent .961 OPS from April. Giancarlo Stanton will handle right field Monday as DJ LeMahieu serves as the designated hitter.
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Yankees' Aaron Judge: Reaches four times
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Judge went 2-for-3 with a solo home run, a walk and three runs scored in Friday's 10-4 win over the White Sox.
Judge scored a run in the first inning on Giancarlo Stanton's two-run shot before he added a homer of his own in the fourth. He later scored a third and final run on Josh Donaldson's ninth-inning blast. Over the last four games, Judge is 7-for-16 with three homers and eight runs scored. He's improved his season slash line to an impressive .305/.376/.661 through 133 plate appearances.
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Yankees' Aaron Judge: Homers, knocks in four
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Judge went 2-for-4 with a home run, a walk, three runs and four RBI in a 15-7 win over the White Sox on Thursday.
Judge did all of his damage late in the contest, swatting a solo homer in the seventh inning, driving in two runs with a single in the eighth and recording a sacrifice fly in the ninth. The four RBI tied a season high for the slugger, who is tied for fifth in the league with 26 runs batted in on the campaign. Judge also leads all of baseball with 11 home runs.
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Yankees' Aaron Judge: First career walkoff homer
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Judge went 2-for-5 with a three-run home run and a second run scored in Tuesday's 6-5 win over the Blue Jays.
His ninth-inning rocket off Toronto closer Jordan Romano was Judge's 10th homer of the season and the 168th of his career, but incredibly, it was the first one of those blasts to end a ballgame. Nine of Judge's homers this season have come in his last 15 games, a stretch during which he's slashing .317/.369/.800 with 20 RBI.
Judge went 2-for-5 with a double, a home run and three RBI in Tuesday's 9-1 win over the Blue Jays.
His sixth-inning solo shot off Alek Manoah got the Yankees on the board, and Judge then capped a big seventh with a double that brought home two more runs. The 30-year-old slugger moved into a tie with Anthony Rizzo for the MLB lead in homers with nine, and he's also supplied a strong .303/.361/.674 slash line with two steals, 17 runs and 19 RBI through 23 games.
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Yankees' Aaron Judge: Extends hit streak, swipes bag
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Judge went 1-for-4 with a stolen base Monday in a 3-2 victory versus Toronto.
Judge wasn't able to lengthen his three-game run with at least one long ball, but he did manage a first-inning single to extend his overall hitting streak to seven contests. The slugger is slashing .367/.387/.900 with five homers and 11 RBI over that span, and he's tied for second in MLB with eight home runs on the season.
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Yankees' Aaron Judge: Launches two home runs
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Judge went 2-for-5 with two homers and three RBI in Sunday's 6-4 win over the Royals.
Judge drilled two solo shots in Sunday's victory, a 453-foot cannon to dead center in the first inning followed by a ninth-inning blast to give the Yankees an insurance run. He's now gone deep in three straight games and has seven over his last eight outings, including a pair of multi-homer performances. The slugging outfielder is slashing .300/.364/.663 with 16 RBI and 16 runs scored through 88 plate appearances.
Judge currently has a five-game hitting streak in which he's gone 8-for-21 with three homers, a double, eight RBI, seven runs, a walk and eight strikeouts. He'll get a breather Saturday while Giancarlo Stanton starts in right field with DJ LeMahieu serving as the designated hitter.
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Yankees' Aaron Judge: Smashes sixth homer
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Judge went 1-for-4 with a three-run home run in Friday's 12-2 win over the Royals.
He rode a 98 mph fastball from Dylan Coleman the other way in the seventh inning to break open a 4-2 game. Judge has six homers on the season, but five of them have come in the last seven games -- a stretch during which he's slashing .357/.400/.929 with 11 RBI.
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Yankees' Aaron Judge: Slugs fifth homer
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Judge went 4-for-5 with a home run, four RBI and two runs scored Thursday against the Orioles.
Judge delivered an RBI single in the bottom of the fifth inning to tie the game at 2-2. However, he saved his big knock for the eighth, when he crushed a three-run home run, which is his fifth long ball of the season. Judge has now collected at least one hit in eight of his last nine games, and he's hit four homers, driven in nine and scored eight runs in that span.
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Yankees' Aaron Judge: Homers, scores twice
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Judge went 2-for-4 with a solo home run and two runs scored in a 12-8 win Tuesday over Baltimore.
After being retired in his first three plate appearances, Judge hit a solo homer in the seventh and singled and scored in the eighth. The 30-year-old is now hitting .274 and slugging .557, on par with his career .276 AVG and .554 SLG. The outfielder is striking out a career-best 24.3 percent of the time, 5.3 percent less frequently than his career rate. The signs point to Judge having another great season hitting atop a potent New York lineup.
Judge went 2-for-3 with two home runs, a walk and three RBI in Friday's 4-1 win over Cleveland.
Judge launched a two-run shot off of Eli Morgan in the third inning and then tagged Tanner Tully with a solo homer in the fifth. The 6-foot-7 slugger boosted his slash line to .280/.368/.540 with seven extra-base hits and four RBI. He was 5-for-23 with one RBI over his previous seven appearances.
Judge isn't starting Friday's game against the Orioles.
Judge recorded extra-base hits in each of his last three appearances, going 4-for-12 with a homer, two doubles, two runs and a walk. He'll be out of the lineup for the first time this year while Giancarlo Stanton takes over in right field, with Josh Donaldson slotting in at DH.
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Yankees' Aaron Judge: Smashes first homer
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Judge went 2-for-5 with a solo home run, a single, a walk and a strikeout during Wednesday's 6-4 loss to the Blue Jays.
Judge collected his third multi-hit game of the season so far and clubbed his first home run, collecting his first RBI in the process as well. Through the first week of the season, Judge is slashing .292/.370/.870.
