Whether he’s in Yankees or Ralph Lauren pinstripes, Aaron Judge — the 6-foot-7 outfielder, team captain and five-time Major League Baseball All-Star — looks like a winner.
Entering Tuesday, as a team, they were hitting .234 (ranked 20th in MLB) with a .691 OPS (18th), not the numbers anyone had in mind for this $306 million roster.
No one is immune to booing at Yankee Stadium. Not even the captain on his bobblehead day. Aaron Judge is struggling through an early-season slump, and Yankees fans didn’t hide their displeasure as they booed the the guy who holds the AL home run record on Saturday when he went 0-for-4 with four strikeouts.
Hours before the game, Brian Cashman surveyed a struggling Yankees offense and essentially shrugged. The general manager had watched many of the club’s best bats go silent in the first weeks of the season and expressed zero concern in a sport in which consistency is near impossible.
One first-inning pitch that didn’t count got the Yankees off and running Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium. With Juan Soto on first base and one out, Aaron Judge didn’t swing at a 1-2 fastball from Athletics starter Joe Boyle that caught the outside corner.
At first, it was nearly another strikeout for Aaron Judge — the latest in a stretch that already had featured 18 across the Yankees’ past nine games. He watched a 99 mph pitch paint the edge of the strike zone.
Joe Boyle thought he caught Aaron Judge looking. With the Yankees’ center fielder facing a 1-2 count, the Athletics’ starter fired a 99-mph fastball to the lower, outside corner of the plate in the first inning.
Aaron Judge is struggling and Yankees fans are ready to make him pay for it. On Tuesday, ESPN’s “The Michael Kay Show” received calls from fans calling for the Yankees captain to be benched. The show’s host,
Aaron Judge is under the microscope. Part of that is because he is in the second year of a nine-year, $360 million deal, and part is because the Yankees offense is faltering. The results haven’t been pretty.
Aaron Judge hit a two-run homer in the first inning after Oakland starting pitcher Joe Boyle was called for a balk on the previous pitch and the New York Yankees beat the Athletics 7-3
Aaron Judge began to show signs he’s ready to bust out of his season-long funk Tuesday night. The slugging outfielder doubled and squared up a few other balls in the Yankees’ 4-3 win over the A’s, perhaps an indication the former MVP is primed to start to resemble the player the Yankees have come to expect.
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