Aaron Judge roasted by Kyle Higashioka after three-homer game: ‘I remember my first time’

It took 801 video games, however Aaron Judge finally has his first three-homer effort.

And with such an extended wait, Yankees catcher Kyle Higashioka made certain to remind the All-Star outfielder who achieved the feat first.

“I joked with him, I stated, ‘I bear in mind my first time,’” the backstop stated after the Yankees snapped a nine-game losing streak with a 9-1 win over the Nationals on Wednesday. “However no, it was unbelievable. We’ve been type of ready for that for a very long time. Me and [Anthony Rizzo] have been joking with him loads. Now we have now nothing to carry over his head.”

Higashioka did certainly maintain that over Decide’s head, particularly because the 33-year-old recorded a three-homer game on Sept. 16, 2020, in a thrashing of the Blue Jays.

Although Higashioka solely has 4 multi-homer video games in his profession and 38 lengthy balls complete in his profession, he had made certain to let Decide know over the course of their Yankees tenures about who between them had really gone deep 3 times in a single contest.

However that every one modified on Wednesday evening.

“Through the years, he’s had a three-homer recreation already, he would at all times remind me each recreation I’d have two and I couldn’t get the third one,” Decide advised reporters after the sport. ” ‘Hey, one in all nowadays, child, you’ll be a part of my membership, be within the unique membership.’ In order that was the primary individual I used to be wanting ahead to seeing as soon as I bought again to the dugout.”

Decide went deep within the first with a solo shot and within the second with a grand slam earlier than he bought an opportunity to hitch Higashioka’s membership within the seventh.

Decide smashed a 95-mph fastball on the skin nook into the right-field seats, simply contained in the foul pole for the ultimate shot of the evening.

In a recreation that the free-falling Yankees wanted desperately, Decide stated afterward that the notch within the win column meant extra.

“I don’t play this recreation to hit homers,” Decide stated. “I play the sport to place us in place to win ballgames.”

Regardless of lacking almost two months with a toe damage, Decide nonetheless has 27 homers with a 1.051 OPS this season.