Aaron Judge accomplishes home run feat to pull Yankees out of rut

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With the New York Yankees desperately needing to break out of a nine-game losing streak, their 2022 MVP, Aaron Judge, put the team on his back with a career night in the Bronx on Wednesday. 

Judge hit three home runs in a single game for the first time in his career, as the Yankees defeated the Washington Nationals, 9-1. Judge was responsible for six of those runs. 

The Yankees hadn’t lost this many games in a row since 1982, and after GM Brian Cashman described the season as a "disaster" prior to first pitch, the vibes certainly weren’t high at Yankee Stadium. They were dead last in the Al East with a 60-65 entering Wednesday. 

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Aaron Judge #99 of the New York Yankees hits a grand slam home run in the second inning against the Washington Nationals at Yankee Stadium on August 23, 2023 in the Bronx borough of New York City. (Mike Stobe/Getty Images)

Judge had the crowd screaming into the Bronx night with a stellar hitting display that begun with his first at-bat of the night. 

Facing Nationals starter Mackenzie Gore, Judge launched a hanging breaking ball clear over his team’s bullpen in right center field to give the Yankees their first lead in 61 innings. It went an estimated 431 feet at 111.3 mph off the bat.

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The Yankees had a chance to really blow the game wide open when Judge stepped back into the batter’s box in the bottom of the second inning with bases loaded in a 2-0 game. And he wasted no time with a 94-mph fastball from Gore that caught way too much of the plate. 

It was scorched to