Yankees' Aaron Judge makes 2 kinds of baseball history no one wants to make
Absolutely brutal for Judge.
Yankees' Aaron Judge makes 2 kinds of baseball history no one wants to make originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Aaron Judge is a historic hitter.
On Wednesday night, though, the New York Yankees ' 6-foot-7 slugger was a historically bad hitter. In multiple ways, he did something that no player had ever done before in the history of baseball. The first was in striking out four times.
He's the first reigning MVP to ever do that, according to MLB. com's Bryan Hoch . MORE: Mike Trout, Tiger Woods, and Superman without his cape Hoch adds that these five reigning MVPs struck out three times on Opening Day the following season: Willie Stargell (1980), Sammy Sosa (1999), Mike Trout (2015), Josh Donaldson (2016) and Kris Bryant (2017).
Judge is the first one with four punchouts in such a setup, though. He's also the first Yankees player in franchise history on Opening Day to have his specific stats, according to Baseball Reference's Katie Sharp . The three boxes he checked to make that statistical history: 5-plus plate appearances, four-plus strikeouts and no hits.