- ABC News
- October 16, 2024
NEW YORK -- Aaron Judge, the best hitter on the planet, finally looked the part in Game 2 of the American League Championship Series. Five postseason games of struggles gave way to one giant swing Tuesday night, when Judge's two-run home run capped a 6-3 win that gave the New York Yankees a 2-0 series lead against the Cleveland Guardians. While the Yankees scored three early runs to capitalize on sloppy play from the typically tidy Guardians, Judge's home run -- a 414-foot blast to center field off Cleveland reliever Hunter Gaddis in the seventh inning -- energized the crowd of 47,054 at Yankee Stadium and served as a reminder that the future AL MVP is more than capable of providing memorable October moments. "You never know on these windy, chilly nights what that ball is going to do when you hit the center here," Judge said, "but the ghosts were pulling out there to Monument Park, that's for sure." The Yankees had won four of their first...