New York Yankees at Kansas City Royals

· Major League Baseball

New York Yankees

48-21, 26-11 Away

Final
10 - 1

Kansas City Royals

39-29, 24-13 Home

Judge hits MLB-best 25th homer into center-field fountain and Yankees rout Royals 10-1

Giancarlo Stanton followed Judge in the seventh with a 446-foot shot to center against reliever Nick Anderson for his 16th home run of the season. Austin Wells hit a three-run homer in a four-run fourth off starter Brady Singer.

Back in the lineup after his first game off this season, Judge hit his 21st homer in his last 41 games and also singled in New York’s first run. Judge raised his average to .309 and is hitting .419 with 44 RBI in his last 35 games after batting .197 through May 2.

“I’m trying not to take that for granted. It’s a lot of fun to witness and to watch what he’s doing on a nightly basis,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “He’s just, obviously — amazing physical talent and tools and ability, but now the experience that thousands of at-bats allow you to have that gets applied with that great talent and this is what you’re seeing.”

Despite lofty stats on the scoreboard each time he steps to the plate, Judge doesn't consider himself a hitter at the level of Barry Bonds, Albert Pujols and Miguel Cabrera.

“I try not to look up there. Even when I'm hitting .150, I try not to look up there. I try to look at (Juan) Soto's stats,” Judge said. "They're hitting .330, though, .330, 340, which is — that’s pretty impressive. So I don't know if I'll ever get there but we can work towards it, for sure. Yeah, .330 in November, I might feel locked in.”

AL-best New York (48-21) improved to 39-4 when Judge and Stanton homer in the same game, including the playoffs, and to 16-1 against the AL Central this season. The Yankees are a season-best 27 games over .500.

Boone got his 557th victory, moving past Billy Martin into sole possession of seventh among Yankees managers.

Marcus Stroman (6-2) allowed four hits and three walks in 5 2/3 innings, boosting his record to 4-0 in his last six starts. Ron Marinaccio struck out Drew Waters, stranding the bases loaded in the sixth.

Soto played right field for the Yankees and went 0 for 2 with a pair of walks before leaving with New York ahead 10-0 in the seventh. After missing the weekend series against the Los Angeles Dodgers because of left forearm inflammation, Soto was the designated hitter Monday and went 1 for 3 with a walk.

Yankees first baseman Anthony Rizzo returned after consecutive days off and went 0 for 4. He is 1 for 33 in June, dropping his average to .221.

“It’s a grind right now and this is what makes you appreciate the sunny days in this game,” Rizzo said, adding he feels “believe it or not, close.”

“It’s tough going through, but this is part of being a baseball player,” Rizzo said.

Anthony Volpe led off with his seventh triple of the season, Soto walked and Judge followed with an RBI single. Alex Verdugo’s groundout advanced the runners and Soto slid home on Stanton’s grounder to third baseman Maikel Garcia, slapping his left hand on the plate ahead of Salvador Perez’s tag.

Singer (4-3) gave up seven runs — six earned — and seven hits in 5 2/3 innings.

“I just wish I would have obviously made some better pitches there,” he said.

Kansas City has lost 10 of 15 following an eight-game winning streak.

“I’d be surprised if there’s a team that doesn’t go through this,” manager Matt Quatraro said. “They’re going to keep grinding away.”

Freddy Fermin homered off Marinaccio in the eighth. First baseman/outfielder Nick Pratto made his professional pitching debut with a one-hit ninth for Kansas City in his first big league appearance this season.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Royals: Kansas City did not have an update on OF Hunter Renfroe, who fractured his left big toe in the series opener. Renfroe was placed on the 10-day IL and INF Adam Frazier on the bereavement list. The Royals recalled Pratto and Waters from Triple-A Omaha.

Yankees: OF Jasson Domínguez (Tommy John surgery) was 1 for 5 with an RBI single for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and is batting .440 with two homers and three RBI in six games with the RailRiders.

RHP Cody Poteet (2-0, 1.72 ERA) starts Wednesday for the Yankees and RHP Dan Altavilla (0-0, 0.00) for the Royals.

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Matchup Prediction

Royals: 47.1%

Yankees: 52.9%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Hampson grounded into force out to shortstop, Garcia out at second.
	9th Inning	Garcia grounded into force out to second, Isbel out at second.
	9th Inning	Isbel walked.
	9th Inning	Loftin flied out to right.
	9th Inning	González relieved Marinaccio
	9th Inning	Rizzo fouled out to third.

Statistics

NYY		KC
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	1
13	Ground Balls	18
8	Strikeouts	4
10	Runs Batted In	1
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
10	Hits	5
0	Stolen Bases	1
3	Walks	5
0	Catcher Interference	0
10	Runs	1
1	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
38	At Bats	32
3	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
12	Runners Left On Base	19
1	Triples	1
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	1
17	Fly Balls	10
0	Caught Stealing	0
169	Pitches	157
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
21	Total Bases	11
42	Plate Appearances	38
486.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
4	Extra Base Hits	3
6.7	Runs Created	3.8
.263	Batting Average	.156
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.553	Slugging Percentage	.344
.368	Secondary Average	.375
.333	On Base Percentage	.289
.886	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.633
0.8	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.8
6.2	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	3.8
61.5	Batter Rating	17.5
12.7	At Bats Per Home Run	32.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
4.02	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.13
.289	Isolated Power	.188
0.38	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	1.25
.071	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.132
.105	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.219
20.0	Runs Produced	2.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.6	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.1
102.0	MLB Rating	71.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0