The Aaron Judge Show continued Friday in the Bronx.
And as the Yankees continued to thrive in front of sold-out crowds, he had plenty of company.
The center fielder hit his sixth timely hit in 11 games in the bottom of the first inning, setting the tone for Friday’s brutal 4-2 victory over the White Sox as the Yankees won their fifth straight game and improved to 11-2. Ta. The last 13 of them.
Judge also scored on Alex Verdugo’s double in the fourth inning, and the Yankees added one run in the sixth inning on Giancarlo Stanton’s go-ahead home run.
That was more than enough for Nestor Cortes. He pitched seven innings and allowed only one earned run, his best start in nearly a month.
With this victory, the Yankees improved their record to 9 wins and 1 loss in the American League Central Division games, which are the joint game portion of the schedule.
As usual these days, both Judge and Stanton’s outbursts stood out.
Judge’s solo home run was a 433-shot blast that ended up in the second left deck, clocking in at 114.4 miles per hour.
Judge’s 12th home run was his previous eight at-bats with seven hits, seven of which were extra-base hits.
However, he succeeded in scaring much of the stadium in the eighth inning when he attempted a reckless dive on Tommy Pham’s liner, resulting in a double.
Stanton’s 10th home run of the season traveled 417 feet and traveled 116.2 mph.
The victory came as the Yankees began a 10-game homestand.
After defeating the Twins in Minnesota, the Yankees faced the last-place White Sox. However, after a mind-boggling 3-22 start to the season, Chicago has won six of its last eight games, going 11-8.
They looked more like a historically horrible team on Friday than a recently improved version of themselves.
The White Sox had a chance to take the lead in the fourth inning with a one-out double by Corey Jukes.
However, the Jokes foolishly advanced to third on Danny Mendick’s routine comeback to Cortez, only to be easily sent off.
And Zach Remillard managed to get hit with a pick from second base with two outs in the fifth inning.
Cortes was brilliant and capable. He threw two singles in the first inning, and the White Sox tied the game with an unearned run in the third inning.
Remillard started the inning on a throw error to second by third baseman Oswaldo Cabrera, and stole third base after Cabrera failed to handle Austin Wells’ bounced throw.
He scored on Andrew Bourne’s single.
Ian Hamilton came on in the eighth inning, allowing a double to Pham and an RBI single to Vaughn, cutting the Yankees’ lead to 4-2.
Gavin Sheets’ pinch-hit double advanced Vaughn to third base, bringing in Caleb Ferguson.
Fortunately for the Yankees, Andrew Benintendi, who had the worst WAR in the majors among eligible hitters according to Fangraphs, was the next batter, and after the former Yankee struck out, Ferguson struck out Jukes. After that, Clay Holmes held the lead with a scoreless ninth inning. 13th save.
