SAN FRANCISCO — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Aaron Judge paid tribute for the third time in two games in San Francisco and the New York Yankees beat the Giants 7-3 on Saturday night.
The judge accompanied his two-homer performance on Friday night in his first game at the stadium where he supported the Giants as a child, with one of the most prodigious shots in the 25 seasons at this stadium.
He capped a nine-pitch first-inning hit against Logan Webb (4-5) by launching a 464-foot changeup into the left-field stands for his major league-leading 21st home run of the year and a 2-0 lead.
The change in schedule did little to slow Judge, who had 14 home runs, 12 doubles and 27 RBIs in May for the most extra-base hits in a month by a Yankees player since Joe DiMaggio had 31 in July 1937. Judge has reached base safely in 28 consecutive games.
Webb intentionally walked Judge with a runner on third and one out in a two-run third inning before striking him out with a runner on third to end the fifth. Judge scored on his last at-bat.
The judge had a lot of help, with Giancarlo Stanton hitting a two-run home run in eighth, Ryan Walker and Alex Verdugo also had two runs.
That was more than enough to lead the Yankees to their 15th victory in 19 games in support of Cody Poteet (2-0), who was called up from Triple-A to start.
Poteet allowed a two-run homer to Casey Schmitt in the third inning and an unearned run in the fifth to earn the win in his second start of the season.
Webb allowed just four earned runs in five home starts this season before giving up as many in seven innings against the Yankees.
The Giants have lost three consecutive games for the first time since being swept in a four-game series in Philadelphia from May 3-6.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Yankees: RHP Cody Morris was signed from Triple-A Scranton Wilkes-Barre to make room for Poteet.
Giants: 2B Thairo Estrada injured his thumb sliding into second base on Friday and had the night off. … OF Michael Conforto (hamstring) played a second rehab game at Triple-A Sacramento and could be activated next week at Arizona.
NEXT
LHP Nestor Cortes (3-4, 3.29 ERA) starts the series finale for New York against LHP Blake Snell (0-3, 10.42), who is winless in five starts with the Giants. The Yankees go for their second sweep in three series here, having also won all three games in 2019.
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