Aaron Judge led the home run barrage for the New York Yankees today as they swept the Milwaukee Brewers. The Yankees won the game 12-3. Aaron Judge hit another home run, and so did Ben Rice. Jazz Chisolm Jr. hit two. Aaron Judge became the first Major League Baseball player to hit 4 home runs in his first three games. After two games, the Yankees 15 home runs is the second most in history. The Yankees chased Milwaukee starter Aaron Civale after just 3 innings. Do you think the Yankees will chase lots of pitchers early this year?
Lineups For the Game
For the season’s third game, the Brewers batted first again at Yankee Stadium. They had Brice Turang batting first and played left field. Jackson Chourio batted second and played second base. Christian Yelich was again the designated hitter batting third, though Vinny Capra batted for him in the eighth. William Contreras did the catching and batted fourth. Sal Frelick was playing right field and batting fifth. Jake Bauers was the first baseman, batting six. Garrett Mitchell was playing centerfield and batted seventh. Jose Ortiz was playing shortstop and batting eighth. Oliver Dunn was playing third base, batting ninth.
The Yankees lineup for the third game had Paul Goldschmidt batting first and playing first base. Cody Bellinger batted second and started in center field but moved to left field for defensive purposes in the seventh inning. Pablo Reyes replaced him in the ninth inning. Aaron Judge batted third and played right field. Oswaldo Peraza replaced him in the ninth inning, much to the consternation of Yankee fans. Jazz Chisolm Jr. bats fourth and plays second base.
Anthony Volpe batted fifth and played shortstop. Austin Wells played catcher and batting sixth. Jasson Dominguez started in left field, batting seventh, but was removed in the seventh inning. Dominguez was the designated hitter batting seventh. He was replaced by Trent Grisham, who batted seventh also and played center field. Ben Rice was the designated hitter, batting eighth. Orlando Cabera batted ninth and played third base.
Scoring Summary: Another Homer for Aaron Judge
The Brewers jumped out to a 1-0 lead as Sal Frelick singled in a run in the bottom of the first inning. Then, the inevitable happened. Aaron Judge hit a two-run home run in his first at-bat in the bottom of the first inning to give the Yankees a 2-1 lead. They never trailed, and Aaron Judge intentionally walked in his next at-bat, and he walked in his next two at-bats again.
Ben Rice then crushed a pitch in the second inning. That gave the Yankees a 3-1 lead. Jazz Chisolm then lined a two-run home run in the third inning, giving the Yankees a 5-1 lead. That was his second home run of the year. In the top of the fourth inning, Jake Bauers hit a two-run home run for the New York Yankees, cutting the Yankees lead to 5-3.
Aaron Judge and Jazz Chisolm Jr. scored on wild pitches in the bottom of the sixth inning, giving the Yankees a 7-3 lead. In the seventh inning, Paul Goldschmidt had an RBI single to extend the Yankee lead to 8-3. Cody Bellinger hit a sacrifice fly to make the Yankees lead 9-3. Then Jazz Chisolm Jr. hit a three-run home run, which extended the Yankee lead to 12-3.
Notes From the Game
This was the second game in a row where the starting pitcher for the New York Yankees exited after four and two-thirds innings, one out shy of what is required for a win. Marcus Stroman threw a lot of first-pitch strikes but then nibbled and was removed for lefthanded pitcher Tim Hill in the fifth inning. Aaron Judge became the first player in Major League Baseball history to hit 4 home runs in the season’s first two games.
Ben Rice hit a home run for the Yankees, as did Jazz Chisolm Jr., twice. That gave the Yankees 14 Home Runs in their first three games, the second most all-time. The 36 runs the Yankees have scored in their first three games of the 2025 season is the most they have ever scored in a three-game stretch. Jake Bauers, a position player, pitched for the Milwaukee Brewers on the second day.
Aaron Judge Heroics
Briefly, Aaron Judge may be the best hitter ever in baseball. He walked three times today, which will happen a lot this year. So far, he has 4 home runs and a double. He has scored 8 runs, driven in 11, and has an unreal 2.461 on-base plus slugging percentage. That’s pretty impressive, considering it’s only the start of the season.
Conclusion
The Yankees are off to a great start to the 2025 season. A team cannot do better than winning its first three games. Nevertheless, there are some worrying signs. First, none of the three Yankee starters pitched long enough to earn the win. These are the guys that the Yankees are counting on to be the aces of their depleted starting rotation. We will see if Will Warren and Carlos Carasco can pitch longer on Tuesday. Also, the defense was a problem for the Yankees last season, and they made 5 errors yesterday.
