'Silent Giant' Jersey finally explodes for his first WS home run

'Silent Giant' Jersey finally explodes for his first WS home run

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Aaron Judge, the 58-homer regular-season giant, has been silent throughout the World Series, but in Game 5, his home run cannon has exploded.

Jersey hit a go-ahead two-run home run in the bottom of the first inning of Game 5 of the Major League Baseball World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Yankee Stadium in New York City today (April 31).

Jersey took a 151-mile-per-hour fastball from Dodgers starter Zach Flaherty over the right-field fence.

The pitch was clocked at 175 miles per hour and traveled 123 meters.

Judge, who was batting just .133 (2-for-15) 파워볼사이트 without a home run in the previous four games and was blamed for the Yankees' three-game sweep of Games 1-3, had singled in the bottom of the eighth inning of Game 4 for his first RBI of the series.

After Judge cleared the fence to give the Yankees a 2-0 lead, the next batter, No. 4 Jayson Chooch, Jr. hit a back-to-back home run off Flaherty to extend the lead to 3-0.

After dropping Games 1 through 3 of the WS, the Yankees won Game 4 to set the stage for a comeback.

If the Yankees win Game 5, they'll return to Dodger Stadium for Game 6 on April 2, when they'll face the Dodgers.