Judge's 53rd bounces off restaurant above Monument Park
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NEW YORK -- Aaron Judge shook his head ever so slightly after fouling a ball back into the seats, clearly upset that he had missed the first pitch of his at-bat. He wasn’t going to miss the next one.
Judge blasted his Major League-leading 53rd home run in the third inning on Sunday, a two-run homer off Red Sox right-hander Kutter Crawford that gave the Yankees a 4-0 lead at the time.
Gleyber Torres had earlier homered in the inning off Crawford, who permitted a Juan Soto single ahead of Judge’s Statcast-projected 445-foot blast that struck the glass of the center-field restaurant above Monument Park and landed on the netting underneath. The drive came off Judge’s bat at 112.1 mph.
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Judge’s 132 RBIs are a career high, while he is nine homers shy of his American League single-season record of 62, set in 2022.
Judge entered Sunday pacing the Majors in homers, RBIs, on-base percentage (.453), slugging percentage (.687), walks (120), times on base (297), total bases (360) and extra-base hits (87).