Everyone has Aaron Judge on the brain.
With the focus of the baseball world on the Yankees slugger and his pursuit of home run No. 62, the CBS Sports game-tracker app picked a bad time to go haywire.
A glitch in the matrix had Yankee fans who were unable to tune in to Tuesday afternoon’s opener of a day-night doubleheader against the Texas Rangers on the YES Network thinking No. 99 had passed Roger Maris to become the new American League single-season home run champ.
At least if they were relying on the CBS Sports app for updates.
Not only did the game-tracker tab credit Judge with first- and second-inning home runs (homers actually hit by Oswaldo Cabrera and Owald Peraza), but it credited Judge with every early at-bat for both teams.
Fans took to social media to bash the app and share screen grabs after getting alerts that Judge had hit a first-inning home run.
As it stands, Judge is still stuck on 61 homers. The 30-year-old slugger went 1 for 5 in the doubleheader opener — a 5-4 win over the Rangers — with one hit (a single to center in the eighth) and a run scored.
He now has two games left to break his tie with Maris, starting with Tuesday night’s nightcap. The Yankees wrap up the regular season with the final game of this series in Arlington on Wednesday afternoon (4 p.m. ET). Should Judge remain homerless through the end of Tuesday, the comparisons to Maris breaking Babe Ruth’s record on the last day of the season 61 years ago will be endless.
After not seeing many pitches to hit against the Baltimore Orioles, the Rangers have stuck with their word and have attacked Judge most of this series by giving him multiple pitches to hit. The Yankees’ superstar has just been unable to cash in to this point.
