Listen to Yankee Stadium go nuts after Aaron Judge's Wild Card Game home run
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On its most fundamental level, music is about creating experiences through sound. Whether through the harmonies of a symphony or the discordant effects of more experimental music, artists strive to affect the body through acoustic force.
When Aaron Judge hit a two-run home run in the first inning of Wednesday's AL Wild Card Game to give the Yankees a 2-0 lead over the A's, the Yankee Stadium crowd created an acoustic experience as powerful as Beethoven or The Rolling Stones. Take a listen:
That sound wasn't just limited to Yankee Stadium. Check out what it was like at Stan's Sports Bar across the street:
Yankee Stadium was plenty loud from Luis Severino's first pitch, but only Judge could make them all rise like that with a 116.1-mph home run -- the hardest-hit postseason home run since Statcast began tracking in 2015.
However, that record didn't last long. In the eighth inning, Giancarlo Stanton managed to hit one even harder than his teammate: