(Brian McCann hit one 450 feet.) The Yankees say Judge is the third player to hit a home run off the windows of the restaurant – it looks like the ball hit over the windows though, right? – joining Russell Branyan and Carlos Correa.
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The Bronx Bombers lived up to their billing with five home runs in an 8-4 win over the Tampa Bay Rays.
On the day that veteran Alex Rodriguez was given his unconditional release, Austin and Judge arrived in the line-up and used their first at-bats in the second inning to go back-to-back – the first time two Major League debutants have hit home runs for the same team in the same game.
Both of these players were talked about for many years.
The Boston Red Sox are two games back after a 6-3 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks that saw home runs from Sandy Leon and Brock Holt. Right fielder Aaron Judge, who was also making his big league debut, followed immediately after him with a shot into the netting protecting Monument Park in center field for a home run of his own.
Giants 6, Orioles 2: Madison Bumgarner snapped a five-start winless streak with seven shutout innings, and Denard Span had four RBIs to lead San Francisco.Bumgarner (11-7) had lost five of his previous seven decisions. CF Kevin Kiemaier returned to Tampa Bay’s lineup after missing Friday’s game with flu-like symptoms. In his two starts since, he gave up 12 runs, all of them earned, in eight innings. Rookie Andrew Benintendi and Dustin Pedroia each had two hits and drove in a run for the Red Sox. “How you come back matters, too, and that’s what New York’s all about”.
In Milwaukee, Cincinnati’s Eugenio Suarez hit a three-run home run during an eight-run sixth. He struck out the next three batters on 10 pitches – all strikes, with only two foul balls. The Rays got two more hits before the second out was recorded and Severino was lifted after striking out Forsythe. Four runs in seven innings isn’t great, but on this afternoon, it was plenty good enough to win. Judge was the No. 4 prospect in the organization prior to his promotion to the show, which comes just 10 days after No. 5 prospect, catcher Gary Sanchez, got the call.
In Chicago, Randal Grichuk hit a grand slam to cap a six-run burst in the eighth and St. Louis stopped the Cubs’ 11-game winning streak.
Aaron Hicks hit a three-run homer in the fifth for a 6-3 lead, and Starlin Castro and Didi Gregorius – batting cleanup for the first time in his big league career – also went deep.
In Miami, Dioner Navarro scored the go-ahead run on a strikeout, capping a weird eighth-inning comeback for Chicago. After a walk by Navarro, pinch-hitter Justin Morneau, facing reliever Kyle Barraclough (6-3), doubled off the fence in right to tie the score 7-7.
While the Pirates were failing to capitalize, the Dodgers got 17 hits, including five doubles and Joc Pederson’s 17th home run, in a game that didn’t see a 1-2-3 inning until the bottom of the eighth.
After getting to four over the first time, the Yankees were 6 1/2 games out of first place and four games out in the wild card race.
Cessa gave up five runs total, including four in the seventh inning, over three innings.
CLEVELAND – Francisco Lindor had three hits and former Angels farmhand Mike Clevinger took a no-hitter into the sixth inning and won his first major league game as Cleveland beat Los Angeles at Progressive Field.
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Longoria finished the three-game series 7 for 11 with six RBIs.
