NEW YORK -- Even Mother Nature is making it harder for Aaron Judge these days. The Yankees slugger would have led off the bottom of the seventh inning Sunday night, but rain and lightning closed in on the Stadium and the game was delayed before Judge could get his fourth at-bat of the night. So Judge went homerless for the fifth straight game and remains one home run shy of tying the American League single-season record as the Yankees beat the Red Sox 2-0 in a weather-shortened game in front of a sold-out crowd of 46,707 at Yankee Stadium.
The Yankees (94-58) won their seventh straight game and dropped their magic number to clinch the American League East down to one. The Bombers headed north to take on the Blue Jays, who trail them by 8.5 games, on Monday.
Judge hit his 60th homer of the season on Tuesday, pulling within one of Roger Maris’ 61-year old record set in 1961. Maris’ children have been at Yankee Stadium waiting to congratulate Judge when he gets the record.
