Yankees.com: Judge visits short porch with shortest career HR as supporting cast steps up

From Bryan Hoch:

Aaron Judge didn’t become one of the game’s most feared sluggers by launching front-row wall-scrapers. While the Yankees captain doesn’t mind visiting the short right-field porch in the Bronx, he’s not accustomed to having to sweat out a drive like he did late on Tuesday.

“I was kind of blowing it out right there,” Judge said. “You’re hoping it sneaks over.”

Indeed it did, a 326-foot poke off reliever Caleb Boushley that will be remembered as the shortest home run of Judge’s career thus far. It would have cleared the fences at just three other ballparks, one being Tampa’s George M. Steinbrenner Field, which has the same dimensions as the original Yankee Stadium.

Otherwise, only Fenway Park and Oracle Park would have yielded a trot – not that Judge had any remorse about his American League-leading 16th blast: “We’ll take them all. It counts the same as the longest one.”

The two-run drive helped to power the Yankees’ ninth win in 12 games, a 5-2 victory over the Rangers, as the Bombers improved to a season-high nine games over .500.

How in the world is Will Warren not even WORKED INTO the first few paragraphs of your game recap?

Warren was outstanding tonight. If it weren’t for him being HORRIFICALLY fucked by the scorer in Seattle, his ERA would be under 4 right now. That’s amazing. That is one hell of a nice stretch of pitching by Warren.

We all know Warren has the stuff to be great, but it’s just what’s between his ears that has let him down in his career, and recently, Matt Blake looks like he has finally gotten to Warren in a big way. If Warren can keep this focus up, he can be an ace in this league. Like I’ve said before, Warren might have the best stuff on the staff, which is saying a LOT, since Rodon and Schmidt both have OUTSTANDING stuff.

CAN he keep focusing game after game after game? That’s the trick. We saw Luis Gil struggle with that last season, and Carlos Rodon still struggles with that in his THIRTIES! Max Fried DOESN’T struggle with it, which why Max Fried is one of the best pitchers in baseball. He DOESN’T need to have his best stuff, and he can still control a game. If Fried had stuff like Warren? Hol-e-shit.

But whatever, the main thing is that Warren is on a hot streak that would be season-changing if he could keep it up. Warren is a guy who could theoretically be your #3 starter in a playoff series, that’s how good he COULD be.

Ben Rice, meanwhile, had been slumping, so it was nice to see him have a great game. That bum Judge managed to keep his batting average over .400.

The featured image is Warren celebrating a sensational catch by Oswald Peraza, who went tumbling into the tarp, but held on to make the grab.