NEW YORK — Aaron Judge’s solo home run in the eighth inning of Thursday’s loss to the Astros at Yankee Stadium didn’t just cap off the best stretch of the Yankees slugger’s season, an encouraging sign after his uncharacteristic start to the year. It was also the longest homer that Judge has hit in a game in almost seven years.

New York Yankees OF Aaron Judge is heating up in May. He crushed a 473-foot homer — his third long ball in his last four games.

New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge was ejected for the first time in his career when he argued a called third strike by plate umpire Ryan Blakney in the seventh inning of Saturday’s game against the Detroit Tigers.