By José Alejandro Rodriguez Zas
The outfielder for the New York Yankees, Aaron Judgehit his 48th home run of the current MLB 2022 season on the night of this Tuesday, August 23, to put his team ahead of his neighbors the New York Mets, in the continuation of the Subway Series at Yankee Stadium.
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In the bottom of the fourth inning, with the game scoreless, on a full count of three balls and two strikes, the slugger swung at a 95 mph sinker thrown by Mets starter Taijuan Walker and sent the ball up to 453 feet over the left field fences. The connection came out of “The Judge’s” bat at a superb speed of 115.9 mph, a true thunder that put the Yankees ahead 1-0 once morest the Mets.
With this homer, Judge reached 206 in his Major League career and 470 RBIs, in addition to reaching 100 runs scored in the current MLB 2022 campaign and 502 for life, also being the 199 Yankees homer in the season, absolute leader of the Big Ten (followed by Atlanta with 188).
Also, with those 453 feet, Judge hit his fifth homer of the season from 450+ feet, tying CJ Cron for the 2022 MLB leaders. Meanwhile, the 115.9 mph exit velocity is the highest for him in the season for a home run, since he has three top connections but they have been outs.
Similarly, Judge had his fourth hit once morest Walker in their individual MLB duels and they have ALL been home runs. In fact, “The Judge” has thrown the ball to said pitcher in his last four starts once morest the Yankees.
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As if that were not enough, Judge became the sixth player in Yankees history with at least 10 homers once morest the Mets (regular season only), tied with Robinson Cano, while Mark Teixeira (11), Jorge Posada ( 12), Alex Rodriguez (13) and Derek Jeter (13) have accumulated more than him.
Without further ado, here’s the hit:
