Aaron Judge Hits Longest Home Run of the Season

Yankees first. Brett Gardner singles to center field.

Rookie sensation Aaron Judge hit two more home runs, including a drive that cleared the distant bleachers at Yankee Stadium and sent NY romping past Baltimore 14-3 Sunday for its fifth straight win.

Second-year outfielder Aaron Judge leads the team in homers, smacking 19 this season to top the majors heading into Sunday’s action.

Judge (2-for-4, walk, three runs) had no thoughts of being intentionally passed.

Judge hit one of five homers on a night when the Yankees set season highs in runs and hits (18) and tied a season best by hitting five homers for the third time this season.

According to Statcast, Aaron Judge has hit 14 homers with exit velocities of 110-plus miles per hour. An inning later, with the Yankees already leading 12-3, Judge lined a 2-2 fastball from Jimmy Yacobonis over the center field wall. “But let’s get the hell out of NY, let’s go to Chicago, redeem ourselves and just flip the script”.

If nothing is scarier than the unknown, the Yankees’ rotation petrified many fans heading into this season.

Earlier in the season, Hicks reportedly took some reps at first base, but with Greg Bird nearing his return from the DL, manager Joe Girardi will probably give Bird much more time to figure out his swing before making a change.

Tyler Clippard would come into the game after Tanaka.

Tanaka was charged with one earned run on four hits over 6.2 innings, with two walks and eight strikeouts.

Hey everyone! Do you remember the time when the Orioles pulled off those two incredible come from behind, walk-off wins versus the Pirates?

Matt Shoemaker has given up 4 runs in 3 of his last 5 starts, including 10 runs in his last 17 innings, so he’s gonna have to turn that around against his lineup.

Danny Espinosa and Cameron Maybin got back-to-back RBI hits in the seventh for the Angels. The left-hander is 6-0 in his last seven starts, a streak that began with a win over Baltimore on May 2.

Dellin Betances recorded the final four outs for his sixth save, striking out the side in the ninth.

Cubs 7, Rockies 5: Addison Russell had a go-ahead home run for his first big contribution since an absence in the wake of a Major League Baseball investigation into domestic abuse allegations, and Chicago stopped Colorado’s seven-game winning streak.

Kole Calhoun homered for the Angels. In the second, Jonathan Schoop crushed a two-run homer but that was all the Orioles would get. On the 3-2 pitch to Castro, Meyer thought he had strike three, but plate umpire Tony Randazzo disagreed. You’re about to find out when you take the Yanks Go Yard Aaron Judge quiz.

Following the Oriole being swept by the Yankees over the weekend, FiveThirtyEight.com gives the Orioles a 15 percent chance of reaching the playoffs.

New York Yankees’ Aaron Judge watches his seventh-inning, two-run, home run in a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles in New York, Sunday, June 11, 2017.

The 25-year-old Judge leads all American League players in fan voting for starting spots in the All-Star Game. Hicks is batting.318 after Friday and is enjoying a significant turnaround from a disappointing first season. Schmidt, 21, was 4-2 with a 1.34 ERA while holding opponents to a.194 average at the University of SC before undergoing Tommy John surgery in April. The Angels selected OF Jordon “Jo” Adell in the first round of the draft, the 10th player picked overall.

Could this be a modern-day version of the M&M Boys, sluggers who could one day become the second teammates ever to hit 50 homers in the same season? Domingo German was recalled from Triple-A and pitched 2 2⁄3 scoreless innings.

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