MINNEAPOLIS — Brett Gardner darted a single to right and DJ LeMahieu scored easily. It was the seventh run of the third inning. It gave the Yankees an 8-0 lead Saturday night.
Aaron Judge, who had been on first, could have cruised into second. Stopped there.
“He could have, but that would have been the wrong thing to do,” Gardner said. “And Aaron Judge doesn’t do that, he wants the extra base.”
In his baseball brain, Judge was thinking the team with the most homers ever in a season was the opponent.
“Base hit, base hit, homer, away from getting back in the game,” in his way of thinking.