Judge 1-for-12 as NY swept: Got to swing at strikes

BOSTON -- Aaron Judge blamed himself for swinging astatine pitches extracurricular the onslaught portion arsenic the New York Yankees were swept successful a three-game bid against the Boston Red Sox.

"You got to plaything astatine strikes," Judge said aft going 1-for-12 successful the series, which Boston completed with a 2-0 victory connected Sunday.

Judge struck retired 3 oregon much times successful 3 consecutive games for lone the 3rd clip successful his large league career.

"That usually helps immoderate hitter erstwhile you plaything astatine strikes," Judge added. "Definitely immoderate pitches disconnected the borderline oregon disconnected the borderline in, you know, taking immoderate hacks conscionable trying to marque thing happen."

Judge had a tying solo homer successful the opener Friday nighttime but struck retired 9 times arsenic the Yankees were swept successful a bid for the archetypal clip this season.

New York scored lone 4 runs successful the 3 games, matching its fewest successful a three-game bid astatine Fenway Park, connected June 20-22, 1916 and connected Sept. 28-30, 1922.

"It's precise hard," Red Sox manager Alex Cora said of facing Judge. "He's truthful bully astatine what helium does. We utilized our fastballs successful the close spots, we got immoderate plaything and misses."

"Throughout the years we've been assertive with him," Cora added. "Sometimes helium gets us, sometimes we bash a bully occupation with that. It's ever amusive to vie against the best, and, to me, he's the champion successful the concern close now."

Judge's large league-leading mean dipped to .378.

"I don't deliberation overmuch of it," teammate Ben Rice said. "If I could person that feline hitting each azygous at-bat adjacent if he's not astatine his best, I would bash it. I'm definite he'll bounce back. He'll beryllium each right."

Judge faced Garrett Whitlock with 2 connected successful the eighth Sunday and bounced into an inning-ending treble play.

"He's 1 of the top hitters successful the world," Whitlock said. "It's peculiar to ticker him play and everything. We tried to execute and had immoderate execution this weekend."