Aaron Judge earned AL Player of the Week honors for a remarkably dominant stretch from September 8-14. The reigning AL MVP led the New York Yankees ' offense with five home runs and a 1.760 OPS in that span. But on Monday, Judge and the rest of the Yankees’ bats were silenced by the Minnesota Twins .

Simeon Woods Richardson tossed six scoreless innings for Minnesota, while striking out 11. Carlos Rodon did his best to keep the Yankees in the game with a quality start. New York was still in striking distance, down 2-0 when manager Aaron Boone went to Luke Weaver in the seventh inning. Then it all fell apart .

“Yeah. That was trash,” Weaver said of his performance against the Twins, per The Athletic’s Brendan Kuty. “The body just wasn’t on time. It wasn’t aligned with what I was t

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