Aaron Judge went his fourth straight game without homering on Saturday as his 61st home run would tie Roger Maris’ AHL record.
The New York Yankees still defeated the Boston Red Sox 7-5, registering a sixth consecutive victory.
“Even for the creme de la creme, a lot of things have to come together to hit a home run,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said.
“As long as he continues to have good at-bats and good batting decisions, it’s going to happen sooner rather than later. »
Judge was 0 for 3 with a walk.
He was struck out on a call from the plate umpire in first, and from first base in seventh.
Between the two, he was taken out on a fly ball to center field and batted out a walk.
Judge slammed a 60th homer on Tuesday. He has since gone 3-for-13 with two doubles, five walks and six strikeouts.
Judge showed frustration at first base umpire Chris Conroy’s call in the seventh.
The packed house of 47,611 didn’t like it either, but the call was hardly controversial. The kind of unrestrained momentum in question is very often decreed as a momentum.
Judge was going to be the next batter in the eighth when Jose Trevino was the last out of the inning, grounding.
Anthony Rizzo broke the 5-5 deadlock by hitting a two-run homer off John Schreiber (3-4) in the seventh.
Rizzo tied his personal best with 32 homers in a season. He reached this total on four occasions.
New York has only lost twice in 12 games.
After Sunday’s game against Boston, the Yankees will play in Toronto Monday through Wednesday.
Author of two hits, Xander Bogaerts stole the American’s top batting from Judge (.315 against .314).
Judge leads major league baseball with 128 RBIs.
He has a chance of winning the Triple Crown, most recently seen in 2012 (Miguel Cabrera).
Oswaldo Cabrera and Gleyber Torres also hit the long ball for the winners.
Triston Casas and Reese McGuire homered homered in a losing cause.
The Red Sox have slipped their last four games.
A rookie first baseman, Casas exchanged a few words with Judge in the fifth, when the hitter was hit four times.
“Basically, I just wanted to tell him that I really like watching him play,” said Casas, who is 22. He is doing something very special. He’s really a good guy. »
The winning pitcher was reliever Lucas Luetge (4-4).
Sunday’s starting pitchers will be Brayan Bello and Nestor Cortes.
Through the American:
Mets 4 -Athletics 10 :
NYM: Pete Alonso hit his 38th homer, Mark Vientos his first.
OAK : Conner Capel drove in four runs in five at bats. He hit his 2nd homer of the season in the 5th inning.
Guardians 4 – Rangers 2 :
CLE : Oscar Gonzalez hit his 10th and 11th homers of the season. Cal Quantrill allowed just one earned run in six innings on the mound.
TEX : Rangers starter Glenn Otto allowed just one earned run and three hits in five and two-thirds innings.
Astros 11 – Orioles 10 :
NEW: Yuli Gurriel broke the tie with a single that drove in two runs in the 9th inning.
BAL : Rougned Odor drove in three runs, including one with a solo homer in the bottom of the 9th inning to close the Astros’ gap to 11-10.
Angels 4 – Twins 8 :
LAA : The Angels made three errors defensively.
MIN : Gary Sánchez hit a three-run homer and drove in four runs.
Mariners 6 – Royals 5 :
SEA : Cal Raleigh drove in three runs including his 25th homer of the season.
KC : Vinnie Pasquantino hit a 9th homer of the season, good for two runs, in the first inning
Tigers 7 – White Sox 2 :
THAT: Harold Castro and Javier Baez hit two-run and three-run homers, respectively.
CHI : Eloy Jimenez and Gavin Sheets hit their 15th longball of the season in the 4th inning.
