Yankees, Torpedo and Aaron Judge
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The Yankees made home run history during their season-opening homestand, tying an AL/NL record with 15 home runs in their first three games of a season and tying a club mark with 13 home runs in two ...
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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 torpedo Brewers with 4 more home runs
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Despite the offensive outburst, the Yankees' defense struggled, committing five errors in their second game.
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Judge added a grand slam homer off Brewers relief pitcher Connor Thomas in the third inning and smashed a two-run homer in the fourth inning as the Yankees seized an 18-6 lead through six innings.
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Officials in Costa Rica have released the body of 14-year-old Miller Gardner — the son of former New York Yankees player Brett Gardner — to his family.
That’s just trying to be the best we can be,” manager Aaron Boone said Sunday. “We’re trying to win on the margins and that shows up in so many different ways.”
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.
Some of the Yankees are using redesigned bats this season and they appear to have made a difference in the first two games of the season.
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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.
New torpedo bats drew attention when the New York Yankees hit a team-record nine homers that traveled a combined 3,695 feet.
Prior to the final game of the opening weekend series between the Milwaukee Brewers and New York Yankees on Sunday afternoon at Yankee Stadium, the hosts held a moment of silence and paid tribute to the late Hall of Fame voice of the Brewers, Bob Uecker.
The Yankees hit a franchise record nine home runs in their 20-9 win over the Brewers on Saturday at Yankee Stadium.