Many things travel faster than a home run hit by Aaron Judge: fighter jets, for example, or supercars on the autobahn. But the solo homer that Judge sent over the left-field wall at Yankee Stadium on Saturday night was fast enough to at least make a Ferrari take notice.
Judge, the powerfully built 6-foot-7, 282-pound slugger, belted a record-setting homer in the first inning by turning a 92-mile-per-hour fastball from Baltimore starter Chris Tillman into a 121.1-m.p.h. rocket off his bat. That exit velocity made Judge’s homer the hardest-hit since Major League Baseball’s Statcast technology began tracking the statistic in 2015.