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First Career Home Run Long before Judge set the American League and Yankees’ records for most home runs in a single season, he made his debut in pinstripes on August 13, 2016. He did not take long to make a great play, catching a fly ball at the right field wall to end the top half of the first inning. Judge was not the only Yankee making his debut that day, either. In the bottom of the second inning, Tyler Austin got his first career at-bat right before Judge and muscled a 2-2 pitch just over the wall in right field to give the Yankees a 1-0 lead. Then came Judge in his first plate appearance. While Austin took five pitches to get his first

career home run, Judge only took four. On a 1-2 pitch, Judge launched a shot to just right of dead center field, with the ball landing in the netting over Monument Park. That’s not a bad start to a career.

Judge hit his first career home run in exciting back-to-back fashion with Tyler Austin.

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