From Bryan Hoch:
The deep drive rocketed off Aaron Judge’s bat like so many before it, disappearing into the evening sky as it soared over Fenway Park’s Green Monster in left field, bound for Lansdowne Street.
If you were to pick a road setting for Judge to hit his 362nd career homer — moving past Joe DiMaggio (361) to claim sole possession of fourth place on the Yankees’ franchise list — there’d be no more fitting choice than this old Boston ballyard, where the Yankee Clipper played so many of his games.
Judge’s blast quieted a buzzing crowd and provided the first run of New York’s 4-1 victory over the Red Sox, clipping a Lucas Giolito four-seamer for a Statcast-projected 468-foot drive that carried an exit velocity of 112.6 mph. Only Babe Ruth (659 of his 714 homers), Mickey Mantle (536) and Lou Gehrig (493) have hit more long balls in a Yankees uniform.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything QUITE like this Yankees starting rotation, where they all have outstanding stuff, but only Max Fried seems to have any real in-game intelligence, and even Fried had problems with command for a month (I still think it’s a clear case of him using a new grip to avoid blisters, and it taking him a month to get adjusted to the new grip). But man, they’re all so fucking talented.
And Luis Gil was electric tonight, but also a moron. It’s so bizarre.
But hey, they got the win, and Gil gets the featured image, after he worked out of trouble in the fifth.
Judge also had a nice home run, and Jazz did a lot of good stuff and a lot of bad stuff.
Max Fried is somehow matched up against Brayan Bello for the THIRD TIME this season tomorrow. Fried hasn’t beaten him yet.
great pic
also we can kvetch about the yankees starters but the results are good