Aaron Judge hits two home runs as Yankees fall to Athletics - ESPN

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Aaron Judge celebrated his return to the Sacramento area by hitting two home runs Saturday in a losing effort for the New York Yankees against the Athletics to extend his major league leading total to 14.

Judge is playing in the Sacramento area for the first time since college in New York's first visit to the A's temporary home near California's capital.

Judge was born in Sacramento and grew up not far away in Linden and had many friends and family in the crowd of 12,113 at the minor league park that is hosting the A's.

«It just felt like being home,» Judge said after the Yankees' win Friday night. «Any time we play the A's, that's always something that's familiar to me and close to home to me. It was special.»

After going 1-for-4 with a walk and two near homers in the series opener, Judge granted A's owner John Fisher his wish Saturday in an 11-7 victory for the home team.

He led off the fourth inning with a homer off JP Sears and then connected again to lead off the sixth against Justin Sterner to the delight of the Yankees fans in attendance, many of whom chanted «MVP! MVP!»

«Not surprising,» Yankees starter Carlos Rodon said. «Once again putting on great swings like he always does. Really good player.»

The second homer gave Judge 14 on the season and gave him 41 career multihomer games — fourth most in Yankees history.

Judge leads the majors in batting average (.396), on-base percentage (.486), slugging percentage (.772) homers and RBIs (37).

When the A's announced their plans last season to play in this minor league park, Fisher said he was excited to see what players like Judge could do in a stadium known for offense.

«We're excited to be here for the next three years playing in this