In the seventh inning of a tie game, Judge saw a sinker from John Schreiber that cut across the plate and demolished it into the bullpen in right-center for his seventh homer of the season. Mid-April is too soon for pace calculators, but if extrapolated he would be on track for 63.

Aaron Judge hit a tiebreaking homer leading off the seventh inning that ended a 10-game drought, and the New York Yankees defeated the Kansas City Royals 4-3 to complete a three-game sweep.

New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge on Wednesday night bashed his first home run since April 4 and in doing so ended a 10-game homer-less streak and delivered the go-ahead run in an eventual 4-3 sweep-completing win over the visiting Kansas City Royals.