Austin and Judge are the first teammates to hit home runs in their first at-bats in the same game in Major League Baseball history.
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Grossman knocked in a run with an RBI single in the first and homered in the fifth as Minnesota snapped a four-game losing streak.
And the Baby Bombers did it back-to-back in a five-pitch span against Tampa Bay.
The third baseman also has 74 hits at Yankee Stadium, the most among active players and two more than Nick Markakis. Texeira announced on August 5 that he would retire at the end of the season, after 14 big league seasons, while Rodriguez announced in a press conference on Sunday that he would play his final major league game on Friday against the Rays after the Yankees release him. And in the next few years (and maybe 2019), they are going to a powerhouse team, with enough money to sign big-name free agents, and they could eventually start a new dynasty.
“Just try to do the job we have that day”, Judge said.
Two young players the Yankees plan to have around for a while, they couldn’t have done anything more magnificent than this.
Judge-Austin seemed to be the Bleacher Creatures’ new favorites, not some jurisprudence reference.
Both Austin and Judge went 2-4 in their debut, their other hits being singles.
With the releasing of Rodriguez, the Yankees called up two prospects in Tyler Austin and Aaron Judge.
Corey Dickerson and Nick Franklin each hit a three-run home run while Logan Forsythe added a solo blast for the Rays, who reached double digits in runs for the eighth time this season. Severino, who has permitted 110 hits in 110 innings over two seasons, is 2-0 with a 1.29 ERA in three games (two starts) versus Tampa Bay after pitching two scoreless innings of relief in New York’s 5-3 loss at Tampa Bay on July 31.WALK-OFFS1.
“Just a fastball kind of ran in”, Judge said.
A new era has officially arrived in the Bronx. When his flight was canceled, the Yankees sent a vehicle service to take him on the 5-hour drive. A big free-swinger, Judge improved his swing mid-season and was hitting a respectable.270 with 19 home runs with the RailRiders. Didi, the cleanup hitter du jour, pulled a ball out to right field for the 8-4 lead. Austin already showed his ability to go the other way with both his hits going to right field, and Judge looks like the Yankees version of Giancarlo Stanton power included.
Before the start of the game, the Yankees had a special surprise for fans in the house, as the 1996 championship Yankees were honored and familiar faces like Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Bernie Williams, Paul O’Neill, Joe Torre, and so much more came to celebrate the honor. “Thank God he’s young, because if that was me, I would be a zombie right now”.
BRANTLEY DONE FOR SEASON: Cleveland Indians outfielder Michael Brantley, who has played in only 11 games this season for the AL Central leaders, will undergo season-ending surgery on his right shoulder Monday. His career slowed after a wrist injury and he was designated for assignment last September 1, giving other teams a chance to claim him off waivers.
He remained with the Yankees and after playing in the Arizona Fall League and Venezuelan Winter League, he started this year at Double-A Trenton and blossomed after he was promoted to Scranton on June 4.
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“It was exciting”, Judge said on Saturday, according to MLB.com’s Nick Suss.
