{"id":173317,"date":"2025-09-27T17:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T17:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/173317\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T17:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T17:52:08","slug":"yankees-aaron-judge-hits-20th-first-inning-home-run-53rd-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/173317\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees&#8217; Aaron Judge hits 20th first-inning home run, 53rd of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a64fe1be=\"\">NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/aaron-judge-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Judge<\/a> hit his 20th first-inning home run of the season, his 53rd long ball this year, to put the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/new-york-yankees-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Yankees<\/a> ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/baltimore-orioles-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore Orioles<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a64fe1be=\"\">Judge drove an 0-1 sweeper from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/tomoyuki-sugano-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tomoyuki Sugano<\/a> into the left-field seats for a 1-0 lead. The previous major league record for first-inning homers was 18, set by the Yankees&#8217; Alex Rodriguez in 2001 and tied by Judge last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a64fe1be=\"\">New York has 49 first-inning homers, two more than the previous mark set by Atlanta in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a64fe1be=\"\">Closing in on his first batting title, Judge leads the major leagues at .331 and has 112 RBIs. He has nine homers in his last 17 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a64fe1be=\"\">New York began the day tied for the AL East lead with Toronto, which holds the tiebreaker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a64fe1be=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a64fe1be=\"\">AP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n<p>\n        What did you think of this story?\n      <\/p>\n<p>\n        recommended\n      <\/p>\n<p> Arrow pointing to the leftArrow pointing to the right <\/p>\n<p>Item 1 of 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Aaron Judge hit his 20th first-inning home run of the season, his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-173317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}