Judge (2 hours) rises on all-time list as Yanks topple Jays
TORONTO – The Yankees, with the Blue Jays this season, decided to start the season with Offer their best chance to neutralize Toronto’s strong lineup. The plan is perfect.
Jimmy Cordero and Jhony Brito in one strangle Toronto’s bat, Aaron Judge enjoying his 19 first multi-home game of his career, That’s as the Yankees kicked off their seven-game road with a 7-4 win at Rogers Center on Monday night.
Judge hits Alek Manoah home run in 1st inning , then hit Jay Jackson deep in the eighth inning — a 94 foot blast to Yankees head coach Aaron Boone Immediately after being ejected at halftime, he argued with home plate umpire Clint Von Drake over the ball and strike.
Only Babe Ruth(43), Mickey Mantle (43), Lou Gehrig (68) and Joe DiMaggio (30) More home games in Yankees uniform than Judge.
New York in what appears to be a pitching mismatch The situation flipped the script, with six hits and seven walks beating Manoa by five in four innings cruising between Cordero and Brito.
When Manoa faced Judge in the first game With Calhoun teeing off, Cordero retired all six batters he faced. Brito took over in the third and pitched five scoreless innings before Toronto finally broke through four runs (two runs) in the eighth. Brito faced the bare minimum until Kevin Kiermaier hit two outs in the sixth.
Kyle Higashioka contributed an RBI single, And Judge had a walk with the bases loaded in the fourth quarter of Manoah. Anthony Rizzo, who had just been named the American League Player of the Week, added backup Tim Mayza who scored a double in the sixth.
