Judge goes deep twice, pushes MLB HR lead to 14

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Aaron Judge celebrated his instrumentality to the Sacramento country by hitting 2 location runs Saturday successful a losing effort for the New York Yankees against the Athletics to widen his large league starring full to 14.

Judge is playing successful the Sacramento country for the archetypal clip since assemblage successful New York's archetypal sojourn to the A's impermanent location adjacent California's capital.

Judge was calved successful Sacramento and grew up not acold distant successful Linden and had galore friends and household successful the assemblage of 12,113 astatine the insignificant league parkland that is hosting the A's.

"It conscionable felt similar being home," Judge said aft the Yankees' triumph Friday night. "Any clip we play the A's, that's ever thing that's acquainted to maine and adjacent to home, to me. It was special."

After going 1 for 4 with a locomotion and 2 adjacent homers successful the bid opener, Judge granted A's proprietor John Fisher his privation Saturday successful an 11-7 victory for the location team.

He led disconnected the 4th inning with a homer disconnected JP Sears and past connected again to pb disconnected the sixth against Justin Sterner to the delight of the Yankees fans successful attendance, galore of whom chanted "MVP! MVP!"

"Not surprising," Yankees starter Carlos Rodon said. "Once again putting connected large swings similar helium ever does. Really bully player."

The 2nd homer gave Judge 14 connected the play and gave him 41 vocation multi-homer games -- 4th astir successful Yankees history.

Judge leads the majors successful batting mean (.396), on-base percent (.486), slugging percent (.772) homers and RBIs (37).

When the A's announced their plans past play to play successful this insignificant league park, Fisher said helium was excited to spot what players similar Judge could bash successful a stadium known for offense.

"We're excited to beryllium present for the adjacent 3 years playing successful this beauteous ballpark, but besides being capable to ticker immoderate of the champion players successful baseball, whether they beryllium Athletics players oregon Aaron Judge and others motorboat location runs retired of this precise intimate, the astir intimate ballpark successful each of Major League Baseball," helium said.

The shot carried good for everyone with the teams combining for six homers -- including a go-ahead, three-run changeable by Shea Langeliers for the A's that pitcher Fernando Cruz was shocked carried implicit the wall.

Cruz said helium went to backmost up location plate, assuming it would beryllium a imaginable sacrifice alert lone to spot the shot transportation out.

"It's the aforesaid for each of us," Cruz said. "It's the aforesaid for the different team, the aforesaid for me, the aforesaid for my different teammates. Just person to travel backmost time and bash the aforesaid thing, transportation and find a small better."

Games astatine this stadium that had antecedently been solely utilized successful the Triple-A Pacific Coast League person had a combined 2.75 location runs per crippled -- up much than 40% from the complaint of homers deed past play astatine the Oakland Coliseum.

"I'm definite arsenic the summertime builds up and the vigor builds up, the PCL is known for that," Yankees manager Aaron Boone said astir the mode the shot carries. "I'd beryllium speaking retired of crook if I said I knew however this spot is going to play throughout. Today was a small antithetic throughout."