New York Yankees 7, Los Angeles Angels 4
Aaron Judge’s 51st homer of the season helped the Yankees beat the Angels 7-4 on Tuesday.
Judge hit a fastball from Mike Mayers (1-1) into the stands in right field for the second night in a row at Angel Stadium. Another loud standing ovation was given to the California-born slugger by a crowd of Yankees fans in Orange County.
Judge and Maris both hit 51 home runs in the Yankees‘ first 130 games, so he’s right on track on making that 61-year-old home-run record in his name.
Judge got 3 hits and drove in 2 runs. Andrew Benintendi and Anthony Rizzo both hit home runs for New York early on, but in the second inning, starter Jameson Taillon hurt his right forearm and had to leave the game.
Greg Weissert (1-0) won his first major league game for the Yankees. Fordham’s Long Island-born replacement retired the next six Angels.
Max Stassi and Mike Ford both hit home runs for the Angels, but even though Touki Toussaint pitched five innings of one-hit relief, the Angels’ four-game winning streak came to an end.
Shohei Ohtani had a double and a single in his third straight game with multiple hits for Los Angeles. Since April, the team hasn’t won five straight games.
Mayers had trouble in the fifth start of his career. In four innings, he let eight hits and five earned runs score.
Benintendi hit a home run in the first inning, and Rizzo did the same in the second. Both were hit to right field by left-handed batters.
In the second, Stassi hit his eighth home run, which was his first since August 5. This broke a streak of going 0-for-40.
But with two outs and runners on first, second, and third, the Yankees scored two runs when Ford dropped Luis Rengifo’s bouncing throw to first.
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Two Orange County natives pitch the finale. Gerrit Cole (10-6, 3.31 ERA) returns to his boyhood stadium to face Patrick Sandoval (4-9, 3.05), who will face the Yankees for the first time.
