After a game, the starting pitcher for that day usually speaks to reporters before any other players do. This is standard procedure at the Yankees clubhouse.
However, starting pitcher Luke Weaver, one of the newest Yankees, was willing to defy post game tradition on Friday night, just minutes after power-hitting Aaron Judge once Are you guys unwilling to talk to the judge? Weaver nodded to his towering colleague, who grinned back at him from the other side of the room. again etched his name into the team’s record books.Joking aside, Weaver was willing to bow to Judge because of the slugger’s three-homer outing against the Arizona Diamondbacks, which lifted the Bronx Bombers’ miserable season just a bit longer. The game ended 7-1.About the Yankees’ improbable postseason prospects, Judge finally stated, “We’re not out of it.”
Aaron Boone, manager of the Yankees, stated, “That’s greatness doing special things.” “They are kind of crazy things that happen, but that particular player is all that matters.”That must belong to someone. No one in this room is surprised that it’s Aaron Judge, I don’t think.”On August 23, the right fielder for the Yankees also blasted three home runs, leading New York to a 9-1 victory over the Washington Nationals.Aaron Boone described Aaron Judge’s most recent accomplishment as “greatness doing special things.” That’s true that sometimes strange things happen, but that player is unique.
Weaver, an eight-season veteran, started his first game as a professional in May while playing for the Cincinnati Reds against the Yankees. He remarked, “It’s nice to be on the right side of that.” He was selected by New York from Seattle’s waiver list about two weeks ago.
Weaver went on, “A historic evening, just to witness three home runs.” “With how hard the guy hits the ball, I’m surprised he doesn’t have a tone of home runs.”Following two singles by Oswaldo Cabrera and Oswald Peraza, two young players at the bottom of the Yankees lineup, Judge hit his first home run in the third inning. Judge threw a first-pitch sinker with one out and two on that smacked off a billboard 420 feet away in right-center field, just past the Yankees’ bullpen.”You have to get them in or move them over if guys are on base,” Judge remarked.Two innings later, not too far from where his first home run landed, Judge fired homer No. 2 into the stands. With the two-run blast, the Yankees led 6-0.When asked who reached base before Judge, Boone replied, “Everyone sprinkled in a decent at-bat here and there.” “After everyone contributed a little, Judgey took the lead and controlled the game.”
With Judge’s 383-foot liner into the second deck in right field to score New York’s seventh run, the Yankees’ victory was essentially sealed with their third home run in the seventh inning.Moments later, Judge came out of the dugout to tip his cap for a curtain call, interrupting Yankees second baseman Gleyber Torres’ at-bat.”[Friday night] he just squared some balls,” Boone remar
ked. It was also an unusual windy night. A whole bunch of balls getting stuck. Thus, you had to strike select targets in a specific way, and the way Judgey struck them, they stayed in.”Just four huge swings in the second deck, down the queue and opposite the field.”
Judge was 4-for-4 on the night before he hit the home runs. He also added a base single to left in the first inning that he stretched into a double. During his comeback from a toe injury that sidelined him for 51 games in the midst of the season, the outfielder continued to show off his offensive skills.Judge gave a vague response when asked if there was ever a time he thought the evening may be particularly memorable.Judge advised only concentrating on the upcoming at-bat. “You just kind of put it aside and focus on what the situation is when you come up, regardless of how good or bad the first couple at-bats went.”Along with recording his first three-home run game of the year, Judge also matched the record for most home runs hit by big league players who had missed at least 50 games in a season. Judge’s 35 home runs in 2023 are equal to Rudy York’s 35 in 1937, a season in which York played in just 104 games for the Detroit Tigers.
