From Bryan Hoch:
Aaron Judge joined some select company with his Major League-leading 40th home run in his first at-bat in Friday’s 8-5 loss to the Blue Jays, becoming just the fourth Yankees player to hit 40 or more home runs in at least three separate seasons.
You are probably familiar with the names on the rest of the list: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Mickey Mantle.
Judge connected in impressive fashion, powering a two-run homer in the first inning off Toronto right-hander Kevin Gausman that landed in the left-field bleachers — a Statcast-projected 477 feet from home plate, the third-longest home run of his career (also 496 feet on Sept. 30, 2017, vs. Toronto, and 495 feet on June 11, 2017, vs. Baltimore).
You simply cannot have your headlines be, “Judge awesome…that’s all” when the team losses. Be better, Yankees.com! It can be “Judge first to hit 40 HRs, 100 RBIs as Yankees lose” or whatever, but come on.
Marcus Stroman was the biggest problem tonight, but Gleyber was so interesting that I’m giving him the featured image, with Boone actually benching him after he didn’t run out a hard hit ball that should have been a double, and then Gleyber was thrown out at home on a Volpe double that he really should have scored on, even if he WASN’T starting from second base.
As for Stroman, the Yankees actually should totally send him to the bullpen. If he gets to 140 innings pitched, he gets a player option for 2026. Just don’t start him then. He’s now thrown 116.1 innings. Just put him into the bullpen. You can still start him NEXT season as the #5 starter, but have him in the bullpen for now. I don’t know how you do that exactly without Schmidt available, but it SHOULD be done.
Didn’t Joshy fail to run a couple of times and earlier this year Volpe stopped to watch the play instead of hustling home.
sayanora kid