BALTIMORE — Move the walls back, make them higher. It doesn’t matter to Aaron Judge. The Yankees slugger hammered his longest home run of the season Friday night over the pushed-back left-center field wall at Camden Yards. He hit a second, and the Yankees needed every inch of his 901 combined feet of homers to hold off the Orioles, 7-6.
The Yankees (65-30) snapped a two-game losing streak and won their first game after the All-Star break. They improved to 31-15 in the American League East, where they hold a double-digit lead. The Orioles (46-47) were playing their first game after the break.
Judge, who took the long view after the Yankees dropped both games of a doubleheader against the Astros in Houston Thursday, had his eighth multi-home run game of a season. That’s tied with Gleyber Torres (2019), Alex Rodriguez (2007), Mickey Mantle (1961) and Babe Ruth (1927) for the most multi-homer games in a season in Yankees history.
