Aaron Judge

In his first at-bat as Yankees captain, Aaron Judge picked up right where he left off. The Yankees center fielder clobbered a one-out solo shot in the ...

“Picturing him on the third-base line in a Giants uniform on Opening Day, that was not a good thought. “If I was going to be somewhere for nine-plus years, I wanted to be surrounded by some guys that would be ready to go now. I’m just grateful that I get to continue to be his manager.” It would have been nice to be home in California and be a little closer to family, but this city has kind of become my family now.” I talked about prospects coming up, who do you have that’s going to be in the pipeline? It took all of two pitches for Judge to pick up where he left off.

Aaron Judge sent a Logan Webb sinker over the wall in center field to give the Yankees a 1-0 lead over the Giants on Opening Day.

“I think I saw [Opening Day matchup] during the middle of the year last year, and I was kind of like, ‘Someone’s messing with me on MLB’s side,’ ” Judge said. [Want to catch a game? The homer gave the Yankees a 1-0 lead over the Giants – who tried hard to poach Judge in the offseason – in the first inning of their

The first home run of the San Francisco Giants-New York Yankees series came from Aaron Judge. Of course, it did.

Given all of the offseason drama surrounding Judge and the Giants, president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi said he anticipates the series to be fun, but doesn't doubt that his guys have a little [Giants excited to open up with marquee series against Judge](https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/giants/giants-farhan-zaidi-extra-motivated-face-aaron-judge-opening-day) [extra motivation facing Judge](https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/giants/giants-farhan-zaidi-extra-motivated-face-aaron-judge-opening-day).

Months after that decision, there will be no hard feelings, president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi said last week. "I think it's going to be fun," Zaidi ...

It is a series that was always going to be in the spotlight, and Kapler hopes his players embrace that. "I think we're going to be very scrappy," Webb said at the end of camp. The Giants won't be lacking in that department this season, but there is some urgency to latch onto the sources of motivation and get off to a quick start. And then to do it with a couple of guys (we pursued) -- a guy who was on our team last year in Carlos (Rodón), and unfortunately it doesn't sound like he's going to be able to pitch -- but I think the fact that we were pursuing a couple of the same guys (as the Yankees), it's just going to provide extra motivation." "I'm very excited about opening up in New York and having that opportunity," Kapler said. During his own playing career, he took Mike Mussina deep at the old Yankee Stadium and homered off Andy Pettitte at the new one. He also provided a different outlook on how the Giants can succeed even if people on the outside don't generally see it. Lots and lots and lots of tickets. The pursuit of the reigning American League MVP was a baseball play, first and foremost. The Giants put forth the best effort they ever have for a free agent, only for Judge to decide not to come home, but to stay in a city that has become his home. Sean Manaea will fit in at some point behind him and Taylor Rogers looks poised to be a big help That wouldn't have been the case had Judge agreed to return to Northern California.

New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge hit his first home run of the year after setting the American League record last year.

[The San Francisco Giants.](https://www.outkick.com/arson-judge-giants-offer-and-more-details-revealed-on-yankees-pursuit-of-judge/) ](https://www.outkick.com/aaron-judge-has-re-signed-with-yankees-for-9-years-360-million/) [Aaron Judge](https://www.outkick.com/aaron-judge-has-re-signed-with-yankees-for-9-years-360-million/) hit a bomb to center field to give the Yankees a 1-0 lead over the San Francisco Giants in the first inning.

Before taking the field Thursday, Judge had joked about Major League Baseball scheduling a Giants-Yankees Opening Day matchup for the first time ever, putting ...

[Jhony Brito](https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/42864/jhony-brito) from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. "I thought his fastball and his ability to move it around, in, out, up, down, was really strong, coupled with having a presence with the changeup against the lefties," Boone said of Cole's outing. [Gleyber Torres](https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/33804/gleyber-torres), who gave the Yankees a 3-0 lead in the fourth inning with a two-run shot of his own, said Judge's homer was far from unexpected. You're the shortstop of the New York Yankees, you got to have something ...' I think the fans got a pretty good roar. [Gerrit Cole](https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/32081/gerrit-cole) called a "tone-setter" in the game. I think it was huge getting that run there in the first and then letting Cole go out there and do his thing." "Getting a chance to get one run on the board there early for Cole, I think it was huge," Judge explained. Judge also had high praise for Volpe's poise, with the hefty expectations of being the youngest Yankees starting shortstop since Derek Jeter made his debut at age 20 in 1995. Webb also set a Giants Opening Day record when he recorded his 12th strikeout in the sixth inning. But to get us a shot right there in the first and kind of let "I was pretty vocal about that from the beginning. I thought we looked like a settled team out there, and that was good to see."

The first home run of the San Francisco Giants-New York Yankees series came from Aaron Judge. Of course it did.

Given all of the offseason drama surrounding Judge and the Giants, president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi said he anticipates the series to be fun, but doesn't doubt that his guys have a little Giants in MLB season opener](https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/giants/mlb-opening-day-2023-yankees-aaron-judge-homers-first-bat-vs-giants?cid=Yahoo&partner=ya4nbcs&chrcontext=WVIT) originally appeared on [NBC Sports Bayarea](https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea?cid=MSN&chrcontext=WVIT) [Judge homers in first at-bat vs.

The Giants pushed hard for Aaron Judge in November, but they now will face him in their opener as they kick off a season in New York for the first time ...

One down, 62 to go for Aaron Judge and many more for the Yankees, who defeated the Giants 5-0 on MLB Opening Day 2023.

“I didn’t quite know how it was going to shake out when you fire four high to start the game.” “I didn’t want to go anywhere,” Judge said. “I was pretty vocal about that from the beginning and then you gotta go through the free-agency process. “It was pretty special.” It’s tough to think about being anywhere else.” [Want to catch a game?

Aaron Judge rang in opening day the same way he marked many nights last season: with a home run.

“It would have been nice to have him,” Webb said. “There’s only room for improvement,” Judge said. “It was a tone-setter for us,” winner Gerrit Cole said. “One of the darkest places I went was picturing him on that third-base line in a Giants uniform on opening day.” [Judge agreed to a $360 million, nine-year contract with the Yankees](https://apnews.com/article/mlb-aaron-judge-returns-to-yankees-4d96769289e2b66ba7eaa268f90595b5), spurning his hometown area Giants and the San Diego Padres. “I didn’t want to go anywhere.

NEW YORK -- One way or another, Aaron Judge was going to open the 2023 season at Yankee Stadium. Either he would re-sign with the New York Yankees and ...

Scherzer and deGrom pitched for the [Nationals](https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/teams/WAS/washington-nationals/) and [Mets](https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/teams/NYM/new-york-mets/), respectively. [Estevan Florial](/mlb/players/2507504/estevan-florial/) could be the casualty. 1 prospect](https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/new-york-yankees-top-prospects-2023-anthony-volpe-leads-list-jasson-dominguez-at-no-3/) and their new starting shortstop, became the youngest Yankee to start Opening Day since Derek Jeter in 1996. Because of all their spring training injuries -- they placed nine players on the MLB injured list Thursday -- the Yankees opened the season with 14 position players and 12 pitchers on the active roster rather than the usual 13/13 split. [Anthony Volpe](/mlb/players/3117930/anthony-volpe/). He went 1 for 4 and served a single to left field for his first big-league hit in 18 months. Either he would re-sign with the [New York Yankees](https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/teams/NYY/new-york-yankees/) and return a hero or sign with his hometown-ish [San Francisco Giants](https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/teams/SF/san-francisco-giants/) and return as a potential villain. McDowell was an [Orioles](https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/teams/BAL/baltimore-orioles/) vs. [Gerrit Cole](/mlb/players/1893753/gerrit-cole/) both set a new franchise record for strikeouts on Opening Day. Webb is already one of the best pitchers in the sport. "It was nice to get a lead right out of the chute with Aaron," Cole said. The Yankees and Giants have met seven times in the World Series, the second most ever.

BRONX -- When both of your parents are teachers, there's no such thing as an excused absence from school. That meant after 30 years on earth, Aaron Judge.

You know, I would get up in the middle of the night acting like I’m taking my bat,” Judge recalled. “I did tell him yesterday, especially with the Giants being in town, one of my lowest, darkest places this winter was when when when I thought maybe it was in jeopardy that he was coming back,” Boone said. “That was one of the darkest places I went was picturing him on that third base line in a Giants uniform on opening day. There was one caveat to that since he was doing so as the captain of the Yankees. Opening Day certainly took on a different feel for Judge this year than the last. San Francisco was one of the teams that courted Judge during the offseason as well.

Judge's home run is his first career Opening Day home run and the first home run of the 2023 baseball season league-wide. It also came against a Giants team ...

This is the first time the Yankees and Giants have opened a regular season against each other. "Fans were loud, great reception for everybody in the lineup." He is one of the game's great ground-ball pitchers and homer avoiders, but he made a mistake to the sport's preeminent power hitter, and you won't get the ball back too many times when you do that. Webb left a sinker up and out over the plate and Judge won't miss many of those. Judge eventually returned to the Yankees on a massive nine year, $360 million contract. "And that's about as tough a guy as you're going to do it against right-on-right.

Fans at Yankee Stadium got their money's worth early Thursday.

An infamous offseason typo became something of a reality when a fan wore an "Arson Judge" jersey during the Opening Day game between the Giants and New York ...

His tenure with the Giants lasted briefly on Twitter, but Arson Judge lives on forever. The infamous hot stove typo became something of a reality Thursday when the New York Yankees played the Giants to launch the 2023 MLB season. [sign a nine-year, $360 million deal](https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/giants/mlb-rumors-aaron-judge-spurns-giants-agrees-nine-year-yankees-contract) to remain with the Yankees.

Aaron Judge homered in his first at-bat, Gerrit Cole struck out 11 in six sharp innings and the host New York Yankees beat the San Francisco Giants 5-0 on ...

Miles Mikolas yielded 10 hits and struck out six for the Cardinals. Alec Bohm went 3-for-4 with a two-run homer, a double, two runs and three RBIs for the Phillies. George Springer had five hits and Bo Bichette added four hits for Toronto. Reds starter Hunter Greene allowed five hits and three runs over 3 1/3 innings, striking out eight and walking one. Tyler O'Neill and Brendan Donovan hit two-run home runs for the Cardinals. Rob Zastryzny (1-0) earned the win, coming on to finish the sixth and pitching a perfect seventh. Marlins right-hander Sandy Alcantara, the reigning National League Cy Young Award winner, was left with a no-decision after allowing three runs (two earned) in 5 2/3 innings. Grossman went 1-for-3 with a three-run blast and a walk, while Miller's lone hit in four at-bats was a two-run shot. Nimmo lined a sacrifice fly in the third for the Mets' first run and delivered a go-ahead, two-run double in the seventh. Webb (0-1) allowed four runs on four hits in six-plus innings. In his fourth straight Opening Day start, Cole (1-0) allowed three hits and surpassed Tim Leary (1991) for the team strikeout record in a season opener. Tigers starter Eduardo Rodriguez tossed 5 1/3 innings and allowed three runs on three hits.

Even with much of the attention on Anthony Volpe's debut, Judge made his presence felt on Thursday.

NEW YORK -- Last week, president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi said he thought the Giants' failed free-agent pursuit for reigning American League MVP ...

It’s likely that he does something good in the series and probably has a great season for the Yankees.” In the end, it worked out for me to come back to the Yankees. Webb was among the Giants players who tried to recruit Judge over the offseason, and he has said he felt Judge’s interest in San Francisco was sincere. It was kind of a dream come true getting a chance to speak to them and getting an opportunity to go there. “I think Logan pitched about as good a game as he could have hoped and all of us could have hoped,” manager Gabe Kapler said. “I think he’s the best hitter in baseball,” said Webb, who was charged with four runs over six-plus innings in his second consecutive Opening Day start for San Francisco.

Aaron Judge smashing the ball into the stands has become a regular sight for baseball fans. And on the opening day of the new season, he treated fans to ...

“To get a ball up like that, and to hit it out on a cold day, dead center, not only is it is a difficult chore in and of itself. But to get us a shot right there in the first and kind of let Gerrit [Cole] take it from there … You’ve got to go through the free-agency process, but all in all, this is where I want to be. And on the opening day of the new [season](https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/29/sport/shohei-ohtani-mlb-angels-baseball-record-spt-intl), he treated fans to another explosive display. “I was pretty vocal about that in the beginning. It was his first homer of the season and the league’s first overall, coming in a comfortable 5-0 victory for the Yankees over the Giants.

Aaron Judge smashing the ball into the stands has become a regular sight for baseball fans. And on the opening day of the new season, he treated fans to ...

“To get a ball up like that, and to hit it out on a cold day, dead center, not only is it is a difficult chore in and of itself. But to get us a shot right there in the first and kind of let Gerrit [Cole] take it from there … You’ve got to go through the free-agency process, but all in all, this is where I want to be. And on the opening day of the new [season](https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/29/sport/shohei-ohtani-mlb-angels-baseball-record-spt-intl), he treated fans to another explosive display. “I was pretty vocal about that in the beginning. It was his first homer of the season and the league’s first overall, coming in a comfortable 5-0 victory for the Yankees over the Giants.

After rookie Anthony Volpe got most of the attention during spring training, Judge seized the spotlight on Opening Day.

“I was pretty vocal about that in the beginning, and then you have to go through the free-agency process. After an unusually brutal offseason for the Giants, who seemed to have signed Judge until they didn’t, and who seemed to have signed shortstop “I think it went back to the roll call, and even in introductions, like, hearing my name with the Yankee roar, I didn’t want to go anywhere,” Judge said. [Logan Webb](https://theathletic.com/mlb/player/logan-webb-ZX2qF55UEp5mSHRL/)’s sinker for a 422-foot blast to straightaway center for his first home run of the season. For a moment, it appeared [Aaron Judge](https://theathletic.com/mlb/player/aaron-judge-SFIT5wwDvRYLsber/) was signing a free-agent contract with the [San Francisco Giants](https://theathletic.com/mlb/team/sf-giants/) to effectively finish the rest of his playing days closer to his family in California. “Webb is going to keep you in the ballpark,” Boone said. He joked that his parents, Wayne and Patty, were teachers so there was no way he could have skipped school to attend a baseball game. [Yankees](https://theathletic.com/mlb/team/yankees/) manager Aaron Boone’s mind wandered to the darkest places as he wondered what his future managing this team would look like. It was a reminder that Judge very well may still be the best hitter on the planet. But Judge re-signed with the Yankees for nine years and $360 million. [San Diego](https://theathletic.com/mlb/team/padres/) felt cold and hopeless during the Winter Meetings. During introductions before Thursday’s 5-0 win for the Yankees, Volpe and Judge received roughly the same thunderous ovation from the sellout crowd.

Gerrit Cole struck out 11 in six scoreless innings Gleyber Torres added a two-run, opposite-field homer to right in the fourth and Judge blooped an RBI ...

Maroon scored early in the third period to give Tampa Bay a 3-1 lead, then put the game away with his second with 3:32 to go. Pat Maroon scored twice in the third period, Steven Stamkos had a goal and an assist and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the slumping Washington Capitals 5-1 on Thursday night. Vanecek finished with 24 saves as the Devils won the season series 3-1 and opened a four-point lead over the Rangers in the Metropolitan Division with two weeks left in the season. Pittsburgh held on to the second wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference with the victory. David Pastrnak scored his 53rd goal of the season 41 seconds into overtime and the Boston Bruins wrapped up the Presidents’ Trophy with their franchise-record 58th victory, 2-1 over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Thursday night, The Presidents’ Trophy goes to the NHL regular-season points leader. Jason Zucker scored his 26th goal in the second period to give Jarry all the help he would need on his way to his 13th career shutout. Playing in his first season-opener after starring for the Orioles as a rookie last year, Rutschman homered in his first at-bat and finished 5-for-5 with a career-best four RBIs and a walk on a chilly day at Fenway Park. Boston broke a tie with the 1970-71 team for the franchise victory mark and moved four away from tying the NHL record of 62 set by Detroit in 1995-96 and matched by Tampa Bay in 2018-19. The Celtics won the season series with the Bucks 2-1 and therefore would win the tiebreaker if both teams finish the regular season with the same record. The Mets improved to 41-21 on opening day — the best record in baseball. Elsewhere, Adley Rutschman became the first catcher in major league history with five hits on opening day, and the Baltimore Orioles survived a wild ninth inning to beat the Boston Red Sox 10-9. It was opening day in Major League Baseball yesterday Anthony Volpe went 0 for 2 with a walk, stolen base and two nice defensive plays in his major league debut, a 5-0 opening-day win over the San Francisco Giants.

“One of my lowest, darkest places this winter was when I thought maybe it was in jeopardy that he was coming back,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said Thursday ...

“It would have been nice to have him,” Webb said. “There's only room for improvement,” Judge said. “It was a tone-setter for us,” winner Gerrit Cole said. “One of the darkest places I went was picturing him on that third-base line in a Giants uniform on opening day.” [Judge agreed to a $360 million, nine-year contract with the Yankees](https://apnews.com/article/mlb-aaron-judge-returns-to-yankees-4d96769289e2b66ba7eaa268f90595b5), spurning his hometown area Giants and the San Diego Padres. After Judge agreed to the deal, the Yankees [elevated him to their first captain since Derek Jeter in 2014](https://apnews.com/article/mlb-sports-don-mattingly-aaron-judge-derek-jeter-d96ebdd0dd0111defaf1b7d52d489746).