In season full of potential, Aaron Judge made sure to set the tone in Yankees' home-opening win
As the Yankees returned home after a 5-1 road trip to start the season, Aaron Judge made sure to set the tone for the day before and during the game.
Aaron Judge perhaps set the tone for the Yankees ’ 124th home opener Friday afternoon long before the first pitch or his key home run in the first inning. The night before the Yanks met the Marlins at Yankee Stadium, Judge sent a team-wide text: “Suits tomorrow. ” So the Yankees showed up decked out in their finery, perhaps a sartorial declaration of a kind.
“That’s Cap…so everybody was fired up,” Ben Rice said. Aaron Boone was grinning over the snazzy threads in the morning, hours before the Yankees beat the Marlins, 8-2 . Seeing his players so nattily dressed, the manager said, helped show the importance of the first game of the year at Yankee Stadium.
“When they’re rolling in in suits today, I know that’s meaningful,” Boone said. It’s been a remarkable season for the Yankees so far (caveat: it’s early). But the 6-1 Yanks ooze talent and potential.
It all starts with Judge, just like, basically, their seventh game of the season did. After the Marlins grabbed a 1-0 lead in the first inning on Xavier Edwards ’ solo homer – the first home run allowed by a Yankee pitcher this season – Judge immediately responded. Trent Grisham led off with a walk and then Judge pounded a two-run homer for an instant lead.
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