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B/R Mag LogoFacebook LogoTwitter LogoCopy Link IconBleacher Report LogoB/R MagHow Aaron Judge Plays Above the RimUnfazed by the paparazzi or pinstripes Roberto Alomar Jersey , the 26-year-old record-setter has a mind to match the muscles. And when you watch him up close, it鈥檚 all or nothing. Part of the B/R POWER 50 Level Up list.Scott MillerScottMillerBblTwitter LogoNational MLB ColumnistJuly 23, 2018Aaron Judge is Paul Bunyan on the baseball field, Gulliver in the land of Lilliputians. A physical giant, ox-strong, swinging his bat like an ax. The future.Smash MLB's single-season rookie home run record, as Judge did with 52 in 2017, in, say, Oakland, where Mark McGwire set the old record of 49 in 1987, and you're celebrated. Do it on the game's biggest stage, smack dab in Yankee Stadium, and you're deified.That part can be dangerous, because when you're the first position player in MLB history to stand 6'7" and weigh 282 pounds (that factoid brought to you by none other than the Elias Sports Bureau, the game's official statistician), you cannot so much as sneeze without causing a seismic reaction. So when his now-teammate and then-rival Giancarlo Stanton approached to meet him at last year's All-Star festivities in Miami, it was a made-for-paparazzi moment. When Judge then chopped his way to the Home Run Derby title http://www.bluejaysfanproshop.com/authentic-paul-molitor-jersey , his outsized physicality became even more pronounced.So, too, did it when he fell into a second-half slump in which he whiffed 99 times in 241 at-bats, a whopping 41.1 percent rate (as opposed to 109 times in 301 at-bats in the first half, a 36.2 percent rate). What impressed his Yankees teammates during the slide is the same mental acumen that helped Judge then and will do so in the future. They were amazed at his ability to keep focused and that his demeanor remained unchanged. Born in Linden, California, the adopted son of two teachers has a mind to match his muscles. All rise, indeed. After regaining his balance, Judge nearly pushed the Yankees to their first post-Jeter/Rivera World Series, amassing a 1.065 OPS against Houston in an American League Championship Series that went to a seventh game. He was named the AL Rookie of the Year, finished second in the league's MVP balloting and is the coverboy for MLB The Show 18. In person or on a video screen, Judge is a sight to behold. Nobody stings the ball harder: Seven of his home runs last season screamed out of the park at 117 mph or faster, per Statcast; only two homers by anyone else all year had exit velocities that high (both were hit by Stanton). And Judge's average exit velo of 95.0 mph on balls in play led the majors.BYU鈥檚 Cosmo the Cougar Is the Next Superstar MascotJoshua Johnson Is HS Footballs Quadruple ThreatThe Champions x Queer EyeHappy 26th Birthday to OBJ 馃帀Happy Anniversary to the Cubs Curse-BreakingD-Rose Turned Back the Clock and Put Up 50Will Drake鈥檚 Favorite Teams Reverse the 6 God Curse?Sports Worlds Halloween Costumes Went HardUp Your Halloween Game with Giant Pumpkin RegattaThe Champions: Episode 6 Is ComingDubs Trolled Fergie So Hard It Became a ChallengePurdue Footballs No. 1 Fan Is Inspiring the TeamOne Road to MLB Starts with a Bottle Cap and BroomstickIts Been a Wild Month with Flyers鈥?Mascot Gritty馃専The Champions: Episode 5 馃専CP3-Rondo Blowup Was a Long Time ComingMahomes Is Showtime Off the Field TooCFBs Creative Entrances Put WWE to ShameWorld Pole Climbing Championships Are Something ElseNBA Let Players Know They Have to Cover Branded TattoosRight Arrow IconCool thing, too, is when time and place come together as they have in this moment: In Yankees pinstripes, Judge is connected to legendary sluggers such as Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle by numbers and Dave Winfield by size while blasting forward on his own in a game that is changing before our eyes. To go with all those strikeouts in the all-or-nothing, swing-away environment in 2017 were 127 walks, the game's second-highest total. Considering Judge's giant strike zone Roger Clemens Jersey , that's an eagle's eye.In a sport that generally keeps its staid, old-fashioned metal cleats squarely in the infield dirt, Judge plays above the rim. And the exciting part鈥攅specially for the Yankees鈥攊s, at 26, his best years are still ahead of him.Scott Miller covers Major League Baseball as a national columnist for Bleacher Report. Follow Scotton Twitterand talk baseball.Check out more game-changers on theB/R POWER 50Level Up list:1.Cristiano Ronaldo2. Giannis Antetokounmpo3. Chloe Kim4. WWE Women's Division5. A'ja Wilson6. Sylvia Fowles7. Aaron Judge8. Shohei Ohtani9. Russell Westbrook10. Sabrina IonescuExplore theB/R POWER 50, a list of the most influential people in sports culture right now >> BOSTON (AP) — An early stumble did little to slow down the Boston Red Sox.Boston scored seven straight runs after falling behind 3-0 in the first and beat the Tampa Bay Rays 7-3 on Friday night.“We had a good night. Guys put in quality at-bats from the first hitter on,” said Xander Bogaerts, who led the latest rally for the Red Sox with a two-run triple in the first.Bogaerts added a pair of doubles and the Red Sox improved to 51 games above .500 at 87-36.Jackie Bradley Jr. had two hits, including an RBI double in the sixth, and the Red Sox won for the sixth time in seven games.Brian Johnson recovered after getting roughed up in the first, when the Rays tagged him for three runs on four hits and a walk. Johnson cruised through the next three innings and didn’t allow another run.“Whenever you give up three and we come back and score two, you kind of feel that momentum come back to our dugout,” Johnson said. “That’s when you know you’ve just got to go out there and pull them through any way you can.”Johnson (4-3) pitched 5 2/3 innings before leaving after Joey Wendle’s double in the sixth — Tampa Bay’s first hit since the first inning.Wendle drove in two runs with a double in the first and Carlos Gomez had an RBI single for the Rays.“We felt like it was a good start here,” Rays manager Kevin Cash said. “You’re not going to get much better starts, three in the first, but unfortunately we just gave it back a little too quick.”Yonny Chirinos (1-5) took over for Ryne Stanek in the second inning and allowed five runs on nine hits over six innings.Bogaerts pulled Boston within 3-2 on a two-out triple to center in the first, then led off the fourth with a double. Eduardo Nunez drove him in with a single to tie it at 3-all.Bogaerts, who fouled a ball hard off his left shin before doubling again in the seventh Justin Smoak Jersey , has driven in nine runs in his last eight games.“He put some great at-bats today and that was good to see,” manager Alex Cora said.The Red Sox added another run after Mookie Betts’ leadoff double in the fifth and a one-out single by Mitch Moreland, who finished 2 for 4.OFF THE WALLMallex Smith had a pair of hits for the Rays and a made a great catch in the second on a sinking ball hit by Nunez, running it down in shallow right just before crashing hard into the wall with his left hip.Smith held on to the ball despite tumbling into the front row and remained in the game after a quick visit from the trainer.“Really impressive play,” Cash said.TOUCHEIn the third, Bradley made a catch for Boston that rivaled Smith’s play the previous inning. Tommy Pham hit a deep fly ball that was headed for the wall in left-center until Bradley ran it down just in front of the 379-foot mark for the second out of the inning.Bradley had to lunge to get the ball and crashed to the warning track and rolled, avoiding a full-speed collision with the wall.“That changes momentum,” Smith said. “A guy makes a catch like that after you hit the ball that hard, it’s deflating.”CURVE CONTROLJohnson walked Pham with two outs in the first before C.J. Cron and Wendle hit consecutive doubles and Gomez singled to drive in Wendle for a 3-0 lead.Johnson said his first-inning struggles had mostly to do with struggling to locate with his curveball.“I was burying it when I wouldn’t want to bury it,” Johnson said. “Giving up three in the first is never the way anyone wants to go about it.”TRAINER’S ROOMRays: LHP Vidal Nuno (strained right hamstring) was scheduled to pitch two innings for Class A Charlotte on Friday night. Nuno has been on the DL since July 4.Red Sox: Activated Ian Kinsler (strained left hamstring) from the 10-day DL and started him at second. Placed 3B Rafael Devers on the 10-day DL with a strained left hamstring, retroactive to Thursday.UP NEXTRays: RHP Tyler Glasnow (1-2, 3.97 ERA) gets his fourth start for the Rays since arriving from Pittsburgh in the Chris Archer trade July 31.Red Sox: LHP David Price (12-6, 3.75) has allowed a total three runs over his last four starts, going 2-0 with two no-decisions.