Aaron Judge hit a three-run homer in the first inning for his 500th career extra-base hit as the host New York Yankees raced out to a big lead and earned a 9-7 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Thursday night.

New York Yankees captain Aaron Judge joined franchise legend Babe Ruth on Thursday night in an exclusive club according to OptaSTATS.

Aaron Judge hit a three-run homer in the first inning for his 500th career extra-base hit, collected three hits and drove in four runs as the host New York Yankees

The Yankees' feel-good story of spring training, J.C. Escarra notched his first career MLB hit on Thursday against the Diamondbacks.

At that point, the Yankees were already four home runs into a historic nine-homer barrage that resulted in a 20-9 blowout. They concluded the three-game sweep with 15 homers to tie the MLB record for the most long balls through a team's first three games.

MIT physicist Aaron Leanhardt has been credited with creating the torpedo bats. Leanhardt previously served as a hitting analyst with the Yankees before he joined the Miami Marlins as a field coordinator in the offseason.

The Yankees return to Amazon for the first of 21 games that’ll air on the streamer throughout the 2025 season. The Bronx Bombers began their quest to return to the World Series with a three-game sweep of the Milwaukee Brewers but lost a 7-5 game to the Diamondbacks on Tuesday night.

A low strikeout rate and high barrel rate have traditionally been the type of pitchers the Yankees have had so much success against. That’s because, for what amounts to essentially the Aaron Judge era, New York has been in the Top 5 in barrel rate and the Bottom 5 in strikeout rate. This season isn’t any different.

But ahead of the second game of this three-game set in New York, there's already some intrigue with regard to the Diamondbacks and their recent trends. Here are three storylines to pay attention to as Arizona looks to take the series with a win on Wednesday: Gallen certainly didn't look like himself on Opening Day,