NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Judge hit his 20th first-inning home run of the season, his 53rd long ball this year, to put the New York Yankees ahead of the Baltimore Orioles on Saturday.

Judge drove an 0-1 sweeper from Tomoyuki Sugano into the left-field seats to drive in the first run of a 6-1 victory. The previous major league record for first-inning homers was 18, set by the Yankees' Alex Rodriguez in 2001 and tied by Judge last year.

New York has 49 first-inning homers, two more than the previous mark set by Atlanta in 2023.

Judge added a two-run single in the fifth inning against Grant Wolfram after manager Aaron Boone was ejected from the dugout by plate umpire Ramon De Jesus for arguing a pair of called strikes against his star.

Closing in on his first batting title, Judge leads the ma

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