New Yankees captain Aaron Judge home runs in first game

Aaron Judge picked up from where he left off last season as he secured a home run in the first game of the new Major League Baseball season for the Yankees on Thursday.

As the new captain for the New York Yankees, Judge hit a solo drive in the first inning of San Francisco’s Logan Webb. It was e 422-foot shot into the netting above Monument Park in central field.

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Judge took a striker, then hit a thigh-high cutter on the outside part of the plate for a 109 mph drive to achieve his first home run for the season at Yankee Stadium.

Judge hit an American League record of 62 homeruns last year, one more than Roger Maris’ previous record of 61, set in 1961 with the Yankees.