Aaron Judge, Juan Soto and Giancarlo Stanton all homer in Yankees’ blowout win over Astros
NY Post
By now, the Yankees have become accustomed to Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton crushing home runs in the same game, and it has almost always led to a win.
When Judge and Juan Soto first homered in the same game last month, Aaron Boone said it made him feel “warm and fuzzy.”
On Wednesday, Judge, Soto and Stanton all went deep in the same game for the first time and, not surprisingly, good things happened for the Yankees.
On a warm night in The Bronx, in what the Yankees can only hope was a preview of the summer to come, the trio combined for 1,291 feet of home runs to power a fifth straight win, 9-4 over the Astros.
“All those [were] put into orbit,” Boone said. “You feed off of those a little bit.”
Soto clobbered a two-run, opposite-field, 440-foot home run in the first inning — part of his three-hit, five-RBI night — before Judge and Stanton both belted solo shots in the third, all off Astros right-hander Spencer Arrighetti. Judge’s came as part of his own three-hit, three-RBI night as he continues to break out of a slow start while Stanton’s came off the bat at 119.9 mph, good for the hardest-hit ball in MLB this season.
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