{"id":58598,"date":"2025-07-12T03:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T03:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/58598\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T03:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T03:45:10","slug":"yankees-aaron-judge-robs-home-run-makes-diving-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/58598\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees’ Aaron Judge robs home run, makes diving catch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aaron Judge didn\u2019t just impress with his bat on Friday night against the Cubs.<\/p>\n

The right fielder also stole the show in the top of the fourth with defensive gems on consecutive plays in the top of the fourth to keep Carlos Rod\u00f3n out of trouble, while protecting a three-run lead.<\/p>\n

Aaron Judge robbed a home run during the Yankees\u2019 game July 11. Screengrab via X\/@MLB<\/p>\n

Aaron Judge\u2019s catch prevented a home run during the Yankees\u2019 July 11 game. Screengrab via X\/@TalkinYanks<\/p>\n

The first play came with one out, when burgeoning star Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/a> sent a fly ball deep to right, apparently headed to the seats in the shallow part of the park.<\/p>\n

But Judge got to the wall, timed his leap perfectly \u2014 and avoided the distraction of a fan also reaching for the ball \u2014 to make an excellent catch.<\/p>\n

Aaron Judge also made a diving catch during the fourth inning of the Yankees\u2019 game July 11. Screengrab via X\/@MLB<\/p>\n

With chants of \u201cMVP\u201d from the Stadium crowd still echoing, Judge made almost as good a catch on the next play, as he raced in and made a diving play on Dansby Swanson\u2019s sinking liner for the final out of the inning.<\/p>\n

Again, the Bronx crowd responded with \u201cMVP\u201d chants as Judge jogged off the field.<\/p>\n

He also drove in the team\u2019s first run with a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the third that was followed by Cody Bellinger\u2019s two-run homer against his former team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron Judge didn\u2019t just impress with his bat on Friday night against the Cubs. The right fielder also…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3090,1271,1266,2228,1277,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-58598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-aaron-judge","9":"tag-chicago-cubs","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york-yankees","12":"tag-pete-crow-armstrong","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114838210022779600","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}