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#Aaron Judge homers again in Yankees’ win over Twins

“Aaron Judge homers again in Yankees’ win over Twins”

At a time when most things that could go wrong are going wrong for the Yankees, they still have their two constants: Aaron Judge and beating the Twins.

The former helped accomplish the latter Monday, with Judge continuing his pursuit of history and putting the Yankees on his back while he’s at it.

Judge crushed his 54th home run of the season, a two-run shot that broke a tie game in the sixth inning and lifted the Yankees to a 5-2 win over the Twins at the Stadium.

It was the third straight game in which Judge has homered — the third time he has done so this season — inching him closer to Roger Maris’ franchise record of 61 that he set in 1961. Judge’s 54th homer came in the Yankees’ 135th game of the season after Maris had 53 through 135 games in 1961.

While Judge homering has become the norm, the Yankees (81-54) also got solo shots from two unlikely sources in Marwin Gonzalez and Isiah Kiner-Falefa. Clay Holmes then recorded his second straight save by striking out a pair in a clean ninth inning.

They helped the Yankees once again beat the Twins (68-65) — they improved to 112-39 against Minnesota since 2002, including 22-2 in The Bronx since the start of 2015 — after coming off a rough road trip.

New York Yankees center fielder Aaron Judge #99, points to the dugout after hitting a 2-run homer, his 54th of the season, in the 6th inning.
Aaron Judge did on Monday what he’s done all season: hit a homer and carry the Yankees.
Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post

The game didn’t finish without a concern, though, as Giancarlo Stanton was pinch hit for by Aaron Hicks in the eighth inning. Stanton had come up hobbled while fouling a ball out of play in the sixth inning, and was tended to by Aaron Boone and a trainer before staying in the game to ground out. Stanton is less than two weeks removed from missing 28 games with left Achilles tendinitis.

Judge was in the middle of the Yankees taking a 1-0 lead in the first inning. The MVP candidate stayed in the ballpark but roped a double to the gap with one out and then came around to score on Josh Donaldson’s fly ball off the left-field wall.

The only problem on the play was that Donaldson took his time getting down the first-base line before realizing that he had not hit a home run, allowing left fielder Jake Cave to throw him out at second.

Gonzalez then took Chris Archer deep for a solo shot in the bottom of the third, making it 2-0 with his first hit since July 6 after going 0-for-29 in between. He also became the first Yankee not named Judge to score a run since Wednesday.

The Twins came back to tie it in the fifth inning, though, on a moonshot of a two-run home run from Gary Sanchez. The former Yankees catcher, playing in his first game back in The Bronx since being traded to the Twins this spring, demolished the baseball with a 473-foot homer off Jameson Taillon that hit the top of the bleachers in left field.

The next batter, Gilberto Celestino, hit a fly ball off the right-field wall that looked destined for extra bases. But rookie Oswaldo Cabrera fielded the carom cleanly and fired a strike to second base to nail Celestino for the first out of the inning. It proved key as the Twins went on to collect a pair of two-out singles before Taillon escaped the jam.

After Judge went deep in the sixth inning, Kiner-Falefa cracked his second home run of the season in the seventh for the 5-2 lead.

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