Yankees' Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton homer in another shutout of Giants
Yankees' Aaron Judge is congratulated by Giancarlo Stanton after hitting a two-run home run during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Giants in San Francisco on Friday. Credit: AP/Jeff Chiu
SAN FRANCISCO — Aaron Judge hit a two-run homer and Giancarlo Stanton added a solo shot in a three-run sixth inning Friday as the Yankees defeated the San Francisco Giants, 3-0.
The Yankees, who beat the Giants, 7-0, on Wednesday night, began a season with two straight shutouts for the first time.
Cam Schlittler, who allowed only a second-inning double by Heliot Ramos and struck out eight in 5 1⁄3 innings, and four relievers combined on a one-hitter with 13 strikeouts and two walks. Fernando Cruz, Tim Hill, Camilo Doval and David Bednar allowed no hits and two walks in 3 2⁄3 innings.
Yankees pitchers have allowed only four hits and four walks in 18 innings, striking out 19. The Giants are the first team to be shut out with five or fewer combined hits in the first two games of a season.
Their franchise record for scoreless innings to begin a season is 20 in 1909, according to Sportradar.
Judge connected on a 405-foot drive to leftfield with an exit velocity of 109.1 mph that broke up a scoreless game and marked his fourth career home run off lefthander Robbie Ray. The ball bounced off a staircase just inside the foul pole.
It was the seventh pitch he saw from Ray and the fifth after Judge challenged a strike call — an 86.1-mph slider — by plate umpire Chad Fairchild. It was overturned.
Two batters later, Stanton hit a 414-foot homer off Jose Butto.
Judge, who grew up a Giants fan, again was booed by the sellout home crowd of 40,273 after choosing to stay with the Yankees as a free agent in December 2022 on a nine-year, $360 million contract rather than return home to his native California and join the Giants.
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