Aaron Judge smoked his 50th and 51st home runs of the season, on a day the Yankees clubbed five, in an eventual 10-3 dismantling of the Rockies on a gorgeous and loud Sunday in The Bronx.
The Yankees’ infield defense let down Marcus Stroman, who was merely OK through five innings. The Yankees’ bats did not cash in on a few opportunities, including loading the bases with one out in the fifth inning and coming away with nothing.
Mistakes and slumps, though, can be camouflaged by power — and particularly by the best player in the sport authoring one of the greatest seasons ever seen.
Aaron Judge smoked his 50th and 51st home runs of the season — on a day the Yankees clubbed five — in an eventual 10-3 dismantling of the Rockies on a gorgeous and loud Sunday in The Bronx, where 41,324 watched a varsity player continue to feast on freshmen.
On yet another day for history, Judge jump-started the Yankees’ scoring by blasting his 18th first-inning home run — matching Alex Rodriguez (in 2001) for the major league record — and became the fifth player to reach 50 in a season three times. Sammy Sosa, Babe Ruth, Mark McGwire and Rodriguez had been the only major leaguers with at least three seasons in which they hit at least 50 homers.
