Judge (1-for-5) still looking for 61 after G1 Win
In Tuesday’s doubles game against the Rangers, Judge hit an eighth-inning single but failed to clear the fence, the Yankees won at Universal Life Stadium 5-4 to win. Instead, Oswaldo Cabrera, Oswald Peraza and Kyle Higashioka all went deep for the Bombers, and Harrison Bader made the lead in the eighth.
“He’s got some balls here in the last few days. Overall Say, he had a good swing and fouled,” Boone said of the judge. “It’s usually the nuance between you’re really rolling or you’re a tick. He’s not like him 61 times to really hold on to one and foul some balls instead. But I don’t think he’s far away.”
Facing Texas starter Jon Gray, Judge grounded in the first inning, flew out in the third and popped in the fifth. He singled out Brock Burke in the eighth, scored a comeback on Bud’s bat, and then grounded against Jonathan Hernandez in the ninth.
Higashioka had two outs in the 9th, which allowed Judge is back in history again. The catcher joked that the free pass represented “probably the loudest applause I’ve ever gotten.”
) Yankees right-hander Jameson Tyrone allowed four runs in six innings ahead of a possible playoff start late in the American League division series Last adjustment. Josh Jung hit a two-run single and Adoris Garcia hit a two-run homer near Tyrone, who was in 61 with 7 hits – pitching effort.
“I’m sure he wants to play, but it’s all about me Nothing was different from what I heard or saw from him in 2016,” Boone said. “He put a little down there; not much, usually. But I really think he’s fine.”
