Aaron Judge crushed a 436ft home run off Boston Red Sox rookie Hunter Dobbins after the pitcher aimed a jab at the Yankees in the run-up to Sunday’s game.
Dobbins, a lifelong Red Sox fan, was asked about his team’s bitter rivals in the run-up to his start for Sunday’s game. “If the Yankees were the last team to give me a contract, I’d retire,” he told the Boston Herald. He added that his feelings towards the Yankees were not just down to playing for the Red Sox though. “I think whoever I was playing with or whoever I would have been drafted by, I’d still hate the Yankees,” he added.
Judge was told about Dobbins’s comments before the game, and duly cracked the first pitch he faced off the pitcher for a two-run homer. Judge was asked if he had thought about Dobbins’s comments when he took the at bat. “Well, once somebody tells you, yeah,” Judge said.
Dobbins had arguably the better night though. He gave up three runs in five innings, but came away with the win as the Red Sox completed an 11-7 victory, taking the series 2-1.
Yankees infielder Jazz Chisholm Jr, said he didn’t have an issue with the comments but thought Dobbins may have taken things a little too far.
“I love competitiveness,” Chisholm said. “But to say that, being a rookie, is kind of crazy to me, to say that you’re going to rule out one out of 30 teams to be a professional athlete.”
Judge hit a second home run in the ninth inning, for his fourth multi-homer game of 2025 and the 43rd of his career. He leads MLB in batting average, hits and OPS this season and is tied for second with Shohei Ohtani for home runs (23).
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