Yankees hit nine domestic runs – and Judge’s Chase for 63 begins

Let’s get it out of the way even if it is too early to start thinking about it: Aaron judgeThe pursuit for 63 is on.

In his second game of regular season, the judge crushed three home runs, part of the franchise record fire of nine houses New York Yankees va 20-9 victories over Milwaukee Brewers. The judge just missed a record fourth home with a double -field double box in the sixth shift and had another chance for the fourth home run to the position of the player Jake Bauers In the eighth shift, but ranked in the left field to the curveball 55 mph.

All in all, not the bad first Saturday of the season.

We should have known that something unusual could happen. The gaming temperature at the Yankee stadium, March 29 (!), Was 78 degrees. It was not a record university-not-time York City hit on this date in 1945 86 degrees-but the Yankee intended to determine some records in the same way.

Face to face to former Yankee Nestor Cortes, Paul Goldschmidt – For the first time in his long career, the leadership hit the home run on the first playground of the first bottom of the first. CODY BELLINGER Then hit the home run on the second course of the shift. The judge turned to Cortes’s third course and destroyed the cutter of 468 feet on the left field, the estimated speed of the output somewhere between 115 and thousand mph. According to Metrics Statcast, the home run had the expected launch diameter of 1,000 and the home run was at 30 of the 30 parks. Or 31 out of 31 if you include Grand Canyon.

Yankees became The first team to hit the home runs on the first three courses They saw in the game. Austin Wells Later he added the fourth home run for the first exchange of four homers in the history of Yankees.

In the undervaluation of the judge’s day, he said, “Well, that was a fun shift.”

But the judge and Yankee were hard to do. In the third shift, facing Connor Thomas – Who debuted the main league league- the judge killed Grand Slam. As Tim Kurkjian pointed to ESPN radio, Hall of Famer has built their entire career without giving up a big slamming; Thomas allowed one of his first shift in large leagues.

To be righteous, Palmer never had to face judges.

The third home run of the judge also came out of Thomas. The judge would complete the 4-for-6 with double, three home runs, four runs and eight RBI-three career three-home play and the first eight-RBI game for Yankees by Didi Gregorius in 2018. singing.

Yankees ended with nine home runs – only the third team in MLB’s history hit so much. Reds hit nine in 1999 against Phillies (Yankees manager Aaron Boone happily pointed out that he hosted for Reds in this game) while Blue Jys owns a 10-homera play against Orioles in 1987. Baltimore.

As for the judge, it is a prosperous beginning of the subsequent season after probably the best year ever had the dough. In 2024, it hit 0.322/0.458/0.701 with 58 home runs with its 223 OPS+ the highest for the right handed. And don’t forget – he did it all despite the slow start and by the end of April only 0.207 hit six home runs. Of course, in 2022, it holds a record in the American league with its 62-homera season. With a hot start this month, this month may be chasing this brand before the rate of catching up rather than playing, as it was last season, when he managed to run a good run until the 16-game homoseb lane since the end of September.

Our latest memory of the Judge 2024 season, unfortunately, was his fault in the 5 World Series, when his fallen fly on Wednesday led to the fact that Dodgers gathered from a 5-0 deficit to win a 7-6 victory. The judge also did not have a great postseason overall, hit only 0.184 with three home runs in 14 games, 20 times. This reduced his career postseason Mark to 0.205/0.318/0.450 and continued to ask whether the team could carry in October.

We’ll take care of it in six months. For one thing, Yankee must get back there, the task made it difficult Gerrit Cole go down for the season and Luis Gil for three months. New ace Max He also in his debut – despite the mountain with the support of support could not even finish five shifts to win victory. The defense was careless with five errors and turned this game into a little comedy Mistake (Yankees became the second team in 50 years to both score 20 runs and make five mistakes).

One thing we have learned, however,: Aaron judge There will still be porridge. For all attention Shohei era He rightly received all offseason and heads until 2025, the judge reminded us that he actually had a better offensive season in 2024. For all predictions Bobby Witt Jr. In 2025 he will win the AL MVP Award, the judge reminded us that he is a double winner of MVP A, as amazing as Witt was last season with 9.4 war, the judge was still Serifying selection of MVP.

The onslaught also showed that even minus Juan SotoPerhaps this Yankees line-up will still be a score of runs, at least if the judge stays healthy-and in the last four seasons is a diameter of 142 games, in 2023 there was no time with this injury. After the catcher Austin Wells hit the day of the opening against the right -wing starter. There are plenty of questions in a line -up in New York if the 37 -year -old Goldschmidt can still produce, to what a newcomer Jasson Dominguez will make how much more Anthony Volpe And Wells will improve, but this may prove to be a better crime than many expect.

For now, one certainty: the judge will be great. Sixty -three is in the game.