Baseball’s Eyes Are on Aaron Judge
The New York Yankees’ rookie slugger may already be the sport’s biggest star. Will he keep it up?
The Major League Baseball season reaches its unofficial midpoint with Tuesday night’s All-Star game, and the story of the year, so far, is Aaron Judge. As the New York Yankees’ rookie right-fielder, Judge has produced jaw-slackening moments with such regularity that it’s hard to single one out, but a good example came on June 11, when the Yankees hosted the Baltimore Orioles in the Bronx.
The game before, Judge had hit his league-leading 19th home run of the season, and that day he padded his total even further. In the sixth inning,
