October 8, 2024

23 thoughts on “Yankees.com: Five straight games! Judge continues streak with HR No. 58

  1. And yes, again – Bradley behind the plate yesterday should be, for MLB, a moment of complete humiliation. Never has the argument for robot umpires been made with such overpowering eloquence.

    1. Burns: “You, Strawberry, hit a home run!”
      Strawberry: “OK, skip.”
      Strawberry: [hits home run]
      Burns: “I told him to do that!”
      Smithers: “Brilliant strategy, sir.”

    2. But not before trying NOT hitting more home runs for way to long, before finally realizing it wasn’t as good.

    1. F*ing incredible.
      He’s a performer, and WE care. History cares. How can he sit NOW?
      Not cool, Aaron.

      UPD: I mean, like really, really not cool.

    2. He does deserve a rest. If he plays the last couple days, he just needs to go 6-for-6 with 6 HR’s both days, and that’ll bring him to 70 and probably a batting title too.

    3. Please. How much of a rest is it?
      He has 5 games in a row, closing in on one significant record.
      Other bigger ones – really big ones – are on the line.
      He surely wants us to be invested in him, to care about what he does.
      Why should we, though, if he’s going to show us that he doesn’t?
      Rest for a day in June, man. And deserves – a batting title, a home run record, that’s something to deserve. One day not playing when all that’s on the line – that’s what he deserves? That’s a crazy take, in my view.

    4. Or, in other words – his innumerable fans deserve, WE deserve, for him to show us he cares at least almost as much as we do.

    5. Pete – I’ve learned from experience to trust my patients when they describe their symptoms, and to trust my colleagues when they say they need a day off.
      I think, and I think most fans would agree, that a healthy Judge contributing to a WS championship would be the most enjoyable outcome, and that if Judge feels that he needs a day, that’s more important than him trying to hit 60.
      I suspect Judge feels the same, and is doing what he thinks will help win a championship. He hasn’t even had a chance to play in the World Series. He wants this at least as much as he wants individual records / accolades – even a selfish player knows that a championship burnishes an individual’s legacy unlike any individual record; but everything Judge has ever said and done suggests that he just wants to win for the sake of winning.

      So – if Judge feels he needs the day off, for whatever reason, then I’m okay with that.
      (If Boone/Cashman are making him sit, then that’s stupid.)

  2. If he hit a HR in the 1st inning, he’d set that record.
    And be at 59 – when’s the last time a Yankee had 2 59-hr seasons? You know the answer.
    And he’d be right there for the consecutive games with HRs record.
    And 2+ more games for a second season of 60. Or 61. Or… 62…
    And a chance to push for a batting title – it’s not going to sink to him without his rising up to meet it.
    Oh, you know all that.

    1. If you were talking about a month to recover, I might buy that.
      But it’s one day off. It really just can’t do anything significant for him.

  3. After the last game, Judge specifically noted that he was likely going to take the next day off, so I saw this coming. It’s still a bit of a shame. He better not pinch hit, as that would break his consecutive games record (well, okay, he can pinch hit if he hits a pinch hit home run, but only then!).

  4. I really want to go to the game tomorrow, when I checked earlier today, tickets were pretty reasonable. But, none of my friends/family can or are interested and it’s a long round trip.

    I think I’ve have to settle for TV.

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