Aaron Judge's go-ahead three-run home run in the seventh inning of the Yankees' loss to the Red Sox on Friday night nearly hit the scoreboard in center field at Fenway Park.
Aaron Judge's 470-foot home run in the seventh inning of Friday's loss to the Red Sox was the fifth-longest homer of his career., Red Sox manager Alex Cora had to feel confident as he walked to the mound with one out in the seventh inning on Friday night.
You can throw those stats out the window against Judge, though … especially when you groove a first-pitch cutter right down the middle.Judge’s go-ahead, three-run blast to straightaway center field — his MLB-leading 36th homer of the season — was an absolute moonshot. Tracked at 470 feet, with an exit velocity of 114.4 mph, the missile landed in the camera well above the bleacher seats in center field at Fenway Park.
“Did it go over the scoreboard?” Boone asked. “I just know when he squared it up, I was like, ‘That’s about as clean as you can hit a baseball.’ I wasn’t sure in the end where it actually . I thought maybe it went over and then under. He pured it.”Judge didn’t stop to admire his work when he made contact. He glanced up and put his head down, starting to trot to first.
Judge hit another ball to a similar spot that same season, a 495-foot homer off Orioles right-hander Logan Verrett. Asked for his thoughts on the tape-measure shot after getting a chance to watch the replay, Judge said that his favorite part was watching the reaction from his teammates.
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