Judge crushes 469-foot HR, one of longest in K.C.

KANSAS CITY, Missouri -- Aaron Judge crushed a 469-foot location tally that astir near Kauffman Stadium successful the archetypal inning of the New York Yankees' crippled against the Kansas City Royals connected Tuesday night, continuing his season-long ravaging of pitchers crossed baseball.

The location run, Judge's 24th, was the 3rd longest successful the majors this play down Mike Trout's (484 feet) and Logan O'Hoppe (470 feet).

The homer raised Judge's batting mean to .398 and his OPS to 1.279 -- 264 points higher than the 2nd champion successful baseball, Shohei Ohtani.

Judge took a 2-0 fastball from rookie left-hander Noah Cameron, who had not fixed up much than 1 tally successful immoderate of his erstwhile 5 large league starts, and yanked it down the line, toward the Royals Hall of Fame that abuts the left-field foul pole.

The shot landed conscionable shy of the Hall of Fame's extortion and registered arsenic the sixth-farthest homer astatine the stadium successful the decennary since MLB's ball-tracking strategy began. It was the seventh-longest regular-season homer successful Judge's career, with his champion a 496-foot changeable to left-center tract astatine Yankee Stadium disconnected Marcus Stroman arsenic a rookie successful 2017.

Judge's season-long heater continued aft helium deed 2 location runs Sunday successful a nonaccomplishment to the Boston Red Sox. His batting average, on-base percent and slugging percent each pb large league hitters, portion helium ranks 2nd successful location runs down Seattle catcher Cal Raleigh and is tied with Boston's Rafael Devers for the American League pb successful RBIs.