Baby Bombers in HR Derby

The lineup is set for the Home Run Derby, and here come the Baby Bombers.

Aaron Judge and Gary Sanchez, the young sluggers who power the New York Yankees’ offense, will participate in the long ball contest Monday during All-Star festivities in Miami.

Judge, a rookie who homered in his first major league at-bat last August, tops the majors with 30 home runs. He is third in the American League with a .330 batting average and second with 66 RBIs.

“I’m excited,” he said last week. “We’ve got a good group of guys going. Getting a chance to go up against Gary is going to be fun. So I think we’re both looking forward to that.”

The 24-year-old Sanchez is hitting .278 with 13 homers and 40 RBIs despite missing nearly a month with a strained biceps. He belted 20 home runs in 53 games as a rookie last season.

“I think it’s going to be special,” Sanchez said through a translator. “I’m pretty sure the fans are going to enjoy it. I’m pretty sure that the excitement will be through the roof, and if I don’t win I want Judge to win.”

Paging Ted Williams

“Is it cold in here, or is it just me?” wrote Scott Ostler of the San Francisco Chronicle after giving cryotherapy treatments — popular with pro athletes a threeweek try. “It’s minus-190 or so, but hey, it’s a dry cold.

“Diversion is the key. I try to come up with a Cryotherapy All-Star team. I get George ‘Iceman’ Gervin, Red ‘The Wheaton Iceman’ Grange, the old Pirates infielder Gene Freese, Vida Blue, Larry Burright, Stone Cold Steve Austin, J.T. Snow, Cool Papa Bell and Chili Davis.”

Nickname game

Major League Baseball has announced it will allow players to wear nicknames on their jerseys for one weekend in August. Bartolo Colon —if he manages to latch on with another team by then — has first dibs on “He Hit Me.”

Crash Davis alert

Mets farmhand Tim Tebow hit his fourth career minor league homer recently, passing Michael Jordan on the all-time list.

Talking the talk

Blogger Chad Picasner, on Judge being the only Yankee not in a batting slump: “As the Yankee Stadium crowd says when Judge comes up: ‘All rise.’ But when the rest of team hits, it’s ‘Remain seated.’ ”

Bettis update

Rockies RHP Chad Bettis threw 30 pitches in the bullpen, eight warmup tosses and then 25 more during a batting practice session last week as he continues his comeback from treatment for testicular cancer. “It’s nice to be talking about mechanics again instead of how my strength is, how I’m recovering, stuff like that,” said Bettis, who went through his final round of chemotherapy in May. “I feel back.”

Magnifying glass

RHP Max Scherzer, one of Washington’s five 2017 All-Stars, was named National League Pitcher of the Month. Scherzer went 3-2 with a microscopic 0.99 ERA in five starts. He had 51 strikeouts and six walks in 36⅓innings.