{"id":774238,"date":"2026-05-05T05:46:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/774238\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T05:46:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:46:39","slug":"aaron-judge-immediately-sets-tone-as-yankees-dominate-orioles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/774238\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Judge immediately sets tone as Yankees dominate Orioles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not long after a pregame ceremony to honor the late John Sterling, Aaron Judge delivered another tribute: a Judgian blast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By the end of the night, with some late piling on \u2014 including a six-run eighth inning \u2014 and an effective enough Cam Schlittler, the Yankees were able to reprise Sterling\u2019s most iconic line over the stadium\u2019s speakers:<\/p>\n

Ballgame over! Yankees win! Thuuuuuuh Yankees win!<\/p>\n

Judge\u2019s two-run shot in the bottom of the first inning set the tone for the night as the Yankees went on to finish off a four-game sweep of the Orioles with a 12-1 win Monday night in front of 36,802 in The Bronx.<\/p>\n

On a day that began with news of Sterling\u2019s death at the age of 87<\/a>, the Yankees (24-11) paid homage to their longtime legendary radio voice \u2014 who was well known for his home run calls \u2014 as Judge immediately crushed his 14th homer of the season off right-hander Shane Baz. <\/p>\n

And it was high, it was far, it was gone.<\/p>\n

\u201c[I was] just thinking of his call,\u201d Judge said of his trip around the bases. \u201cDefinitely seeing that tribute hit home, because he loved the Yankees. He loved this team, he loved this franchise, he loved the fans, he loved everybody he talked to on a nightly basis. So to do that there in the first, I was chuckling around the bases thinking about what he was probably saying.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AaronAaron Judge (99) 2-run home run during the first inning when the New York Yankees played the Baltimore Orioles Monday, May 4, 2026 at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, NY. Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\n

Both Judge and manager Aaron Boone said they would be in favor of Sterling\u2019s \u201cYankees win\u201d call continuing after wins at home.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would love it, right on into Frank [Sinatra],\u201d Boone said. \u201cI loved when they first started doing that [after Sterling retired in 2024], so it was really good to hear.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trent Grisham also drilled a pair of doubles and came around to score both times while Schlittler limited the Orioles (15-20) to just one run across 5 \u00b2\/\u2083 innings as the Yankees won for the 14th time in their last 16 games. <\/p>\n

Across the four-game sweep, the Yankees boat-raced the Orioles by a combined score of 39-10.<\/p>\n

The Yankees blew the doors off the game in the eighth inning off Lou Trivino, including a two-run single from Judge and a two-run triple from Cody Bellinger to turn it into a laugher.<\/p>\n

Judge finished the night 2-for-4 with an intentional walk and four RBIs. <\/p>\n

While the captain had not exactly gotten red-hot through the first month of the season, he continued to supply the power, and now may be doing both. <\/p>\n

\"JassonJasson Dom\u00ednguez (24) advances to second base during the sixth inning when the New York Yankees played the Baltimore Orioles Monday, May 4, 2026 at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, NY. Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\n

Judge has homered in back-to-back games, five of his last eight and 11 of his last 21 \u2014 now on pace for 65 home runs through 35 games \u2014 while batting 11-for-25 (.440) with a 1.563 OPS over his last seven games.<\/p>\n

Schlittler, whose four-seam fastball averaged 99.6 mph, up 2 mph from his season average after discovering a mechanical tweak in between starts, had some trouble harnessing that velocity as he issued a season-high three walks. <\/p>\n

That included to the final two batters he faced, the last one forcing in a run with the bases loaded and two outs in the sixth inning, making it a 3-1 game.<\/p>\n

But Jake Bird came in from the bullpen and \u2014 after being hit for a pitch clock violation before he threw a pitch \u2014 struck out Jeremiah Jackson to leave the bases loaded.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s frustrating,\u201d Schlittler said. \u201cI get on myself for the walks, it\u2019s something you can control. Obviously Birdie\u2019s able to come in there and bail me out. That\u2019s a huge momentum shift for us. Just got to work on that and try not to collapse there in the sixth inning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grisham, whose underlying metrics have suggested he has been better than his surface numbers would indicate, was rewarded Monday and sparked a pair of early rallies. <\/p>\n

He doubled into the gap before Judge homered in the bottom of the first, then doubled into the gap again with one out in the third, took third base on a bad throw in and scored on Bellinger\u2019s sacrifice fly to make it 3-0.<\/p>\n

The center fielder also added a strong catch to start the sixth inning \u2014 just before Schlittler got into trouble \u2014 tracking down a fly ball on the warning track before banging into the wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not long after a pregame ceremony to honor the late John Sterling, Aaron Judge delivered another tribute: a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":774239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[3090,5229,1276,1266,405,403,2228,5226,5225,5228,5227,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-774238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-aaron-judge","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-baltimore-orioles","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-new-york-yankees","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116520392523522038","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774238","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=774238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}