{"id":48458,"date":"2025-05-15T08:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T08:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=48458"},"modified":"2025-05-15T08:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T08:04:04","slug":"aaron-judges-no-doubt-home-run-led-to-priceless-reaction-from-randy-arozarena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=48458","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Judge’s No-Doubt Home Run Led to Priceless Reaction From Randy Arozarena"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
Arozarena didn’t move a muscle.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\"Arozarena<\/picture><\/figure>\n
Arozarena didn’t move a muscle. \/ Screengrab Twitter @TalkinBaseball_<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
\n

Aaron Judge is so good at baseball\u00a0that sometimes outfielders don’t even have to move after he makes contact.<\/p>\n

That’s what happened in the top of the eighth inning of the New York Yankees’ game against the Seattle Mariners on Wednesday night, when Judge stepped up to the plate as the leadoff hitter in a tie game.<\/p>\n

Mariners pitcher Carlos Vargas left a hanging slider in the zone and Judge demolished the ball to left center field for a towering, 444-foot home run. The 117.7 MPH blast was the\u00a0hardest hit ball\u00a0at T-Mobile Park in the Statcast era.<\/p>\n

There was so little doubt that the ball was a home run that Mariners left fielder Randy Arozarena didn’t even move a muscle in the outfield.<\/p>\n

\n