NEW YORK — On April 27, 2024 in Milwaukee, Yankees slugger Aaron Judge went yard.
By Judge’s Goliathan standards, this particular home run was routine, innocuous, almost forgettable. The Yankees were already up six runs in the sixth inning when Judge lofted a hanging slider up above the yellow line in deep left-center field. The ball left his bat at “just” 103.9 miles an hour and went “only” 417 feet before caroming off that batter’s eye and back into play.
It was only the fifth big fly of Judge’s season, a paltry first-month total for the perennial MVP candidate.