Aaron Judge felt the wrath of the New York fans after powering through the first two games of the World Series.
The Yankees captain fell further into a postseason slump in the Yankees’ 4-2 Game 2 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday night.
The Yankees’ superstar slugger has failed to get to the plate, going one for nine with six strikeouts in his first two World Series games at Dodger Stadium, dragging New York’s flailing offense with him.
The 6-foot-1 star went 0 for 4 with three strikeouts in Game 2 on Saturday night and struggled to even make contact against an in-form Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
Dodgers reliever Blake Treinen fanned him with Juan Soto at second base for the top of the ninth inning as the Yankees attempted a comeback.
Aaron Judge has felt the wrath of the New York fans after swinging so far in the World Series
Tensions are starting to rise again in the Big Apple as the series heads to the Bronx for Games 3 and 4, with the Yankees trailing 2-0.
And many frustrated Yankees fans are starting to turn on their captain as they lashed out in anger on social media.
One fan took to Volpe too.
‘Soto showed up and no one else showed up until the 9th. Too little and too late. It’s just not a serious team. I think we’ll at least get back to the Bronx, but my confidence is waning. Team is just not good enough.’
“Aaron Judge is single-handedly tarnishing his own legacy this postseason,” said another. “I can’t even compare him to Mattingly, because Mattingly never had a chance in the playoffs until 1995, and he still had a throwback moment from that one shot he had. This is an ongoing trend for Judge. For a Yankee CAPTAIN to be this bad in the postseason and the World Series… this is something fans will never get over.”
“The Yankees would be better off with Judge Judy at the plate, like Aaron Judge does,” one account fumed, while another quipped, “All up? more like all the fries when Aaron Judge hands me my bag at McDonalds.”
Frustrated Yankees fans begin to turn on their captain as they angrily lashed out at X
“I’m legitimately starting to feel sorry for Aaron Judge,” chimed in another. “To go from being the best regular-season hitter in the world to a try-out lacrosse player has got to be the biggest mental illness ever. baseball in the play-offs for the first time. It’s crazy.’
Others insisted Judge’s arrival would prove to be the difference against the Dodgers.
“This series is about none other than Aaron Judge,” one specialty media user wrote. “If the franchise player you build the entire lineup around delivers zero, you can’t win. Everything else is window dressing. He cost this franchise a championship, and that’s on the permanent record.”
Another added, “This team needs an Aaron judge. period. they can’t win a world series without him producing. just a huge disappointment, holy s***. fucking heartbreaking.”
Others insisted Judge’s arrival would prove to be the difference against the Dodgers
“I honestly don’t know if there were two worse, more painful ways we could have lost the first two games of this series. The only constant between the two is that Aaron Judge didn’t do anything,” a third agreed.
Judge swung and missed six times in his four at-bats in Game 2. The entire Dodgers roster did so only 12 times.
Judge will likely win his second American League MVP award after the season ends, but he’s no one’s idea of an October hero.
He is 6 for 40 with two home runs and a whopping 19 strikeouts in these playoffs, getting all six of his RBIs during a three-game stretch in the AL Championship Series. He is 0 for 8 with runners in scoring position, and he has just one hit in his last 22 at-bats in that situation dating back to previous postseasons.