BOSTON -- As his New York Yankees faced a dominant Chris Sale on Tuesday night, Aaron Judge strode to the plate with one primary purpose: attack the pitcher early.
"You've got to be aggressive with a guy like that. He's going to come after you," Judge said of the Boston Red Sox lefty. "He's got good stuff, he knows it. He's going to use all his pitches and throw them in all different counts, and you've just got to be ready to hit it at all other times."
On a rough night for his teammates, that approach paid off for the Yankees slugger, who had struggled mightily versus Sale to that point in his career.