WEST SACRAMENTO — It didn’t take long for Yankees star Aaron Judge to realize Sutter Health Park is “a good place to hit.”
Judge came up just shy of two home runs in Friday’s series opener against the Athletics, settling instead for a booming double and a warning-track flyout. Still, he felt encouraged by the results.
“A couple balls had no business getting to the track like that, but they did,” Judge said after Friday’s win. “So I look forward to tomorrow.”
On Saturday, Judge showed exactly why he was excited to have another shot.
He reclaimed the outright Major League home run lead with No. 13, a fourth-inning solo dinger to right-center in the Yankees’ 11-7 loss to the A’s, then hit his 14th homer of 2025 in the sixth, a 433-foot solo blast to center.
In addition to home runs, Judge leads MLB in batting average (.396), on-base percentage (.486), slugging percentage (.772), hits (59) and RBIs (37).
Born in Sacramento and raised in Linden, Calif. — an hour south — Judge put on a show Saturday in front of plenty of family and friends.
“Any time we play the A’s, it’s just always something that’s familiar to me and close to home to me, so it’s special,” he said.
