season home run totals – hitting a solo shot for his
Judge added to his season home run totals – hitting a solo shot for his 47th on the campaign It’s been a hard month for a team that find entered August as one of the best in baseball – with the Yankees record now standing at a ghastly 6-14. The Bronx Bombers took a 3-0 lead in the fifth inning – with runs coming from a DJ LeMahieu sac fly in the first, an Aaron Judge home run in the third, and an Andrew Benintendi RBI double in the fifth. That home run from Judge was his 47th of the season, making him only 14 homers away from tying Roger Maris’s recor house d for most in a season as a New York Yankee – one considered to be the last ‘unblemished’ home run record. Mets designated hitter Daniel Vogelbach made it a 3-2 ball game in the top of the 7th inning thanks to a two-run home run. But Benintendi grabbed his secon business d RBI in the bottom half of the inning off starter Max Scherzer to seal the deal.