They had waited five days—41½ innings, 21 plate appearances, 81 pitches—and then the rain came, and baseball fans waited some more. Aaron Judge, who hit his 60th home run of the season Tuesday and has not hit one since, has been the center of a metaphorical storm all week. He was on deck when the literal storm descended.
Major League Baseball finally called the game—a 2–0 Yankees victory over the Red Sox—after a 96-minute delay, marking surely the first time a home crowd booed the announcement that its team had won. The home team might have booed a little, too.
Are you desperate to see Judge break the American League home run record? So are the Yankees.
