It’s been an eventful weekend so far in the Bronx. After the Yankees bid farewell to Alex Rodriguez Friday night, they opened Saturday by calling up two of their most prized prospects, 1B Tyler Austin and RF Aaron Judge. It didn’t take the pair long to make an impact in the big leagues.
With two outs in the bottom of the second inning, Austin came to the plate for his first major league at-bat and promptly served a Matt Andriese pitch to the opposite field. The ball snuck over the wall in the right field corner for a home run, traveling 331 feet. With the Yankees then leading 1-0, Aaron Judge stepped in the box to make his debut. Not to be outdone, Judge positively crushed an Andriese changeup to dead center field. The ball sailed far over the wall, landing near the glass of the Mohegan Sun Sports Bar. The ball traveled 446 feet and came off Judge’s bat at 109 mph.
According to Baseball-Reference, never before in major league history had two players hit back-to-back home runs in their first major league plate appearances.
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Now that makes all of Yankee fans feel great they might not do much this year butt wait till next year remember they got that other fella that’s the first baseman coming back and he’s a long ball hit it soon who are the Bronx bombers a building up and they going to be dive-bombing the entire American and National League I’m excited not