The Yankees played extraordinary baseball in the month of May. Their late-April winning streak carried into May and finished at 11 in a row on May 3rd, and the team did not stop there. They went 19-9, continuing the team’s surge to not only the top of the American League East, but to the best record in baseball. Plenty of players took big steps forward in May, and it shouldn’t surprise anyone that they received end-of-month honors on Friday.
Aaron Judge led the charge for the Yankees, batting .311/.378/.699 with 12 homers in 27 games, jumping to the front of the MLB home run leaderboard.