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Tough to Judge up-and-down night for rookie
- Updated: September 13, 2016
NEW YORK — On the August evening that Aaron Judge’s cell phone buzzed with the news that he was being called up to the Major Leagues, the Yankees prospect had just sat down for a postgame meal in a Rochester, N.Y., restaurant, staring at a cooling hamburger that would be left unfinished.
That word, unfinished, has been tossed around regarding the 24-year-old slugger in recent weeks. He has offered flashes of tantalizing potential, but also evidence of growing pains. Case in point: Judge committed a key error, then hit a tape-measure homer in the Yanks’ 8-2 loss to the Dodgers on Monday at Yankee Stadium.
“I don’t think I’d make too much of it,” Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. “We can overanalyze the situations. He’s played really well, so I’m not going to make too much of it.”
Still, Judge’s second-inning miscue proved costly and stood as one of the biggest reasons why Bryan Mitchell was taking a third-inning shower after permitting six runs (two earned).
With two outs and two men on, Chase Utley lifted a deep fly ball that Judge tracked into the right-center-field gap. Converging with center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury, Judge called for the ball late and watched it smack off his glove, falling to the turf as Howie …
