Aaron Judge hits his fair share of moonshots.
On Sunday, he dabbled in a wall-scraper to remain red-hot.
Judge visited the short porch in right field for his 13th home run of the year to finish off the Yankees’ 7-2 win over the White Sox.
The slicing two-run shot — a 339-footer that only would have gone out at Yankee Stadium, according to Statcast — was Judge’s seventh home run in his last 13 games.
He got an outside cutter from White Sox right-hander Chris Flexen and took it the other way in the fifth inning.
Aaron Judge hits a two-run homer on Sunday to keep the Yankees hot
“I said it to him a few minutes later, I’m like, ‘I think you’re the only person that can hit a ball like that,’ ” manager Aaron Boone said. “He held the ground so well, so he had some power behind it. But I did think it was going to go. Pretty impressive.”
Judge’s 13 home runs are now tied with Shohei Ohtani for the third-most in the majors, trailing only Gunnar Henderson and Kyle Tucker, who both have 15.
Eight of Judge’s last nine hits have been extra-base hits, all in the last five games.
After a quiet start to the season, Judge is now batting .389 with a 1.405 OPS over his last 21 games.
Aaron Judge celebrates in the dugout after hitting his seventh homer in the last 13 games
Tommy Kahnle pitched for Double-A Somerset on Sunday, but his next appearance should come with the Yankees.
The reliever made his fifth and likely final rehab outing Sunday, throwing another perfect inning with two strikeouts. As long as he comes out of it healthy, Kahnle will probably be activated off the injured list on Wednesday, Boone said.
Kahnle, coming back from a shoulder issue that slowed him over the offseason and during spring training, did not allow a base runner while striking out 11 across five innings in his rehab assignment.
DJ LeMahieu (non-displaced foot fracture) started his second rehab game Sunday with Somerset, playing five innings at third base and going 1-for-1 with three walks and an RBI. The veteran is expected to play back-to-back games on Tuesday and Wednesday (likely with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre) and then potentially three straight games Friday through Sunday before he could be ready to rejoin the Yankees.
Gerrit Cole came through Saturday’s 40-pitch bullpen session feeling good on Sunday morning. He will play catch on Monday and then potentially face hitters on Tuesday or Wednesday.
Anthony Volpe extended his career-high hitting streak to 12 games with a leadoff double in the first inning. … Clay Holmes recorded the final two outs of Sunday’s win and has now made it 20 appearances this season without allowing an earned run.
To commemorate Luis Gil’s 14-strikeout gem on Saturday, Marcus Stroman gifted the young right-hander two bottles of wine Sunday morning in the Yankees clubhouse. The bottles were from Stroman’s Le Carenage wine label.
Sunday night, the Yankees returned Oswald Peraza (shoulder) from his rehab assignment, reinstated him from the injured list and optioned him to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
