New York Yankees at Pittsburgh Pirates

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New York Yankees

5-2, 1-0 Away

Final
9 - 4

Pittsburgh Pirates

2-6, 0-1 Home

Judge matches Ruth with 321 homers in first 1,000 Yankees games in 9-4 win over struggling Pirates

Aaron Judge launches 6th home run on the season

Judge's shot to the seats in right-center in the seventh off Tim Mayza — who surrendered Judge's 61st home run during Judge's record-breaking 2022 season — boosted his career total to 321, the most by a player through his first 1,000 games. Those 321 homers also matched the number hit by Babe Ruth during his first 1,000 games with the Yankees.

Coming off his second AL MVP award, Judge has 17 RBI in seven games.

Oswaldo Cabrera went 3 for 4 with four RBI for New York. Anthony Volpe added three hits as the Yankees gave Max Fried (1-0) more than enough run support for the left-hander to collect his first Yankees win in pinstripes. Fried allowed one run and six hits with a walk and six strikeouts in 5 2/3 innings.

Pittsburgh's Mitch Keller (1-1) didn't make it out of the fourth inning on his 29th birthday. Six days removed from relatively smooth sailing against Miami, Keller didn't fare so well against the torpedo-bat-wielding Yankees.

While Keller kept New York in the yard during 3 2/3 innings, that's about all that went right. Keller allowed seven runs, eight hits and and four strikeouts as Pittsburgh fell to 2-6.

Ke'Bryan Hayes and Bryan Reynolds both hit their first homers of the season for the Pirates, who were met with chants of “Sell The Team” on a handful of occasions, most audibly during back-to-back plays in the third in which shortstop Isiah Kiner-Falefa and recently acquired outfielder Alexander Canario made shaky plays in the field.

Key moment After Reynolds' solo shot in the third gave the Pirates a small boost, the Yankees scored three runs in the fourth — all with two outs — to push their advantage to 8-1.

Key stat 139-38 — New York's record since 2020 when Judge goes deep.

Up next LHP Bailey Falter (0-0, 3.00 ERA) starts for Pittsburgh on Saturday and RHP Marcus Stroman (0-0, 5.79) for New York.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Reynolds struck out looking.
	9th Inning	Hayes to second on fielder's indifference.
	9th Inning	Hayes walked.
	9th Inning	Kiner-Falefa lined out to center.
	9th Inning	Frazier popped out to second.
	9th Inning	Williams relieved Headrick

Statistics

NYY		PIT
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
3	Hit By Pitch	0
12	Ground Balls	8
11	Strikeouts	11
9	Runs Batted In	4
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
13	Hits	9
2	Stolen Bases	1
6	Walks	3
0	Catcher Interference	0
9	Runs	4
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
38	At Bats	35
1	Home Runs	2
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
20	Runners Left On Base	17
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
2	Doubles	1
15	Fly Balls	16
2	Caught Stealing	1
194	Pitches	158
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	1
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
18	Total Bases	16
47	Plate Appearances	38
162.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
3	Extra Base Hits	3
8.7	Runs Created	5.0
.342	Batting Average	.257
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.474	Slugging Percentage	.457
.289	Secondary Average	.286
.468	On Base Percentage	.316
.942	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.773
0.8	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.5
8.7	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	5.0
58.0	Batter Rating	34.0
38.0	At Bats Per Home Run	17.5
0.50	Stolen Base Percentage	0.50
4.13	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.16
.132	Isolated Power	.200
0.55	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.27
.128	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.079
-.053	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.029
18.0	Runs Produced	8.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.6	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.5	Balls In Play Average	0.3
101.3	MLB Rating	83.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0