The New York Yankees salvaged the final game of a weekend series against the Milwaukee Brewers with a 12-8 slugfest at American Family Field on Sunday. Right fielder Aaron Judge did most of the slugging for the Yanks, hitting two home runs, numbers 58 and 59 on the season and driving in two more with a late double. Judge, the prohibitive MVP favorite in the American League is now just two long balls away from tying the legendary Yankee record of 61 by Roger Maris. Anthony Rizzo also went deep for New York which erased an early 3-0 deficit. Kolton Wong’s three run blast in the first off Garrett Cole got the Crew going and Tyrone Taylor’s solo shot made it 4-1 in the second. The pitching staff just couldn’t hold it together. Milwaukee put up a fight to the end as Rowdy Tellez hit his 31st of the season. The Brewers won the first two of the weekend with rookie Garrett Mitchell delivering the walk off hit Friday night, a 4-1 victory behind Brandon Woodruff on Saturday but it was just too much Judge in the finale.
The Brewers stand 78-68 and remain two games out of the final wild card spot currently held by Philadelphia. Another Big Apple club arrives for a three game series beginning Monday night with the New York Mets coming to town. Pre-game coverage begins at 6:05 PM with a 6:40 PM first pitch on WTAQ.
