NEW YORK — All Gavin Williams could do was grimace and ask for a new baseball.
The old one had just become a souvenir. From the right hand of the Guardians hurler to the Yankee Stadium bleachers. Made possible, once again, by the thundering bat of Aaron Judge.
The New York supernova homered on Thursday afternoon, a near-daily ritual at this point. His Yankees took the finale and the series from the AL Central-leading Guardians. That solo shot from Judge, his 48th, started the scoring in the fourth.