The blast gave Judge 46 home runs through 113 team games, a pace matched by only Barry Bonds in 2001 (48, on his way to a record 73) and Babe Ruth (46 in 1921, on his way to 59 in a 154-game season). Eovaldi remained in a state of amazement after the game, telling reporters, “It’s just, he’s on fire right now. It soared completely out of Fenway Park, landing atop a parking garage across the street. He hit it 113.8 miles per hour, harder than any ball hit all season by any right-handed hitter on an up-and-in fastball. Eovaldi threw an up-and-in fastball directly where catcher Kevin Plawecki set the target-and precisely where Judge expected the pitch. They might try to come up and in here and. O.K., I don’t think they want to go down there again to go 2–0 on me. “So when they went with a splitter down and away for a ball, I just had a feeling.
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