New York Yankees: Top 15 Moments of the 2017 Season
By Sean Dyer
7. Aaron Judge Crushes 495-Foot Home Run Against Orioles
What. A. Shot. Aaron Judge hit plenty of no-doubters this season but his 495-ft bomb against the Baltimore Orioles was just absurd.
When you buy a ticket at the top of the upper deck, you’re not in home run territory. The retired numbers are not supposed to be at risk of getting hit by a baseball. Now that Aaron Judge is around, however, those rules don’t really apply.
Judge’s blast was at the tail end of a three-game sweep of the Orioles in which the Yankees looked unbeatable, scoring 38 runs with Judge hitting four homers.
At 6’7″, 282 lb., you expect big-time power but this particular shot made your jaw drop.
Yes, Judge strikes out a lot, but there’s a chance every single at-bat that he runs into one and sends it into the stratosphere.
You don’t want to leave the room when Judge is stepping up to the plate. The man is must-watch TV and should provide us with many more logic-defying home runs in the years to come.