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Judge said he can hit the bell just as well without one. “What I’ve done the past couple of seasons speaks for itself," he said, per MLB.com's Bryan Hoch.
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Aaron Judge combined with Paul Goldschmidt and Cody Bellinger to go deep on the first three pitches from Nestor Cortes, then hit two more homers as the New York Yankees set a team record with nine hom...
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Cortes finished having surrendered seven earned runs, throwing 64 pitches.
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Yankees set team record with 9 homers
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Major League Baseball said this was the first time a team homered on its first three pitches since tracking of pitch counts began in 1988.
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It was the first time in team history the Yankees hit four home runs in the first inning of a game.
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The New York Yankees laid on an offensive onslaught against the Milwaukee Brewers to open the 2025 campaign. And after smacking four more home runs on Sunday in their series finale, the team has made some more MLB history as fans continue to debate their controversial new torpedo bats.
On a chilly afternoon at Yankee Stadium, Paul Goldschmidt led off with a single. After Cody Bellinger flied out, Judge launched a 113 mph rocket, 410 feet out to left to give the Yankees a 2-1 lead against Aaron Civale. And then they began taking the bat out of his hands.
The second game of the new season saw the New York Yankees put up a historic offensive performance. The Yankees blew out the Milwaukee Brewers 20-9 on Saturday, thanks to a franch
Sunday afternoon at Yankee Stadium saw another offensive explosion from the Yankees, who completed a dominant sweep of the Milwaukee Brewers with a 12-3 win. Four more home runs left the yard, including a towering three-run shot from Jazz Chisholm Jr. that brought the home crowd to its feet.
Amid concern from fans about a potential competitive advantage with the new bats, an MLB spokesperson told The Athletic's Chris Kirschner that "the shape of the bat does not violate the rules." The 2025 MLB rulebook requires bats to be single pieces of solid wood no longer than 42 inches long.
The New York Yankees are usually the talk of baseball, but Saturday’s game took it to a new level, thanks to their new bats.
The New York Yankees ' explosive offensive display on Saturday, highlighted by a franchise-record nine home runs, has generated buzz around Major League Baseball. And it was not just because of the result, but due to the unique design of some of their bats.
"I mean, you can just ask him." Yet while his skill set, if you ask him, is audaciously believed to stretch beyond the horizon, the Yankees, his club, face the question of whether they will hover a bit lower.