Judge hits 51st HR as Yankees snap skid

Aaron Judge hit a threerun shot in the fourth inning for his 51st homer of the season, and the New York Yankees snapped their threegame losing streak with a 7-4 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday night at Anaheim, Calif.

Judge connected for the second straight night at Angel Stadium, driving a high fastball from Mike Mayers (1-1) into the elevated right-field stands. An Orange County crowd packed with Yankees fans gave another raucous standing ovation to the California-born slugger attempting to chase down Roger Maris’ AL home run record of 61 set in 1961.

He’s right on pace: Judge and Maris both had 51 homers through the Yankees’ first 130 games.

Dodgers 4, Mets 3: At New York, Gavin Lux drove in three runs and Los Angeles won the matchup of NL division leaders. Lux had the tiebreaking single in the seventh inning that drove in Freddie Freeman and came immediately after Joely Rodriguez (0-4) intentionally walked pinch-hitter Will Smith. The Dodgers won despite stranding 12 runners, one shy of their season high, and leaving the bases loaded in the sixth and seventh.

At Minneapolis, Nick Gordon hit his first-ever grand slam and drove in a career-high six runs, Jake Cave and Gary Sánchez also homered, and Minnesota rolled. Gordon lined a two-run double in the first inning and followed with a drive to the upper deck in right field in the fifth.

Twins 10, Red Sox 5: Eastern League Yard Goats 7, Fightin’ Phils 3:

At Hartford, top prospect Zac Veen hit his first home run, a solo shot in the seventh, and scored two runs to help the Yard Goats snap a two-game losing streak in the win at Dunkin’ Donuts Park. Fineas Del Bonta-smith (5-1) picked up the win with two scoreless innings of one-hit relief. Hartford is now 26-25 in the second half and 4 games behind Portland in third place in the Northeast Division.