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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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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