Last Wednesday, New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge went hitless on MLB Opening Day for the first time in his three-time MVP career.
Judge became the first reigning MVP to strike out four times on Opening Day, per MLB.com’s Bryan Hoch.
The Yankees beat the San Francisco Giants 7-0 anyway, behind spectacular pitching from Max Fried.
While Judge has started the season with a .150 batting average, including two home runs, New York can take solace in the fact that nobody is hitting well against the Yankees.
On Tuesday night, the Yankees improved to 4-1 with a 5-0 win against the Seattle Mariners. Fried went seven innings, struck out seven, and allowed three hits to maintain his pristine 0.00 ERA for at least another few days.
According to MLB, the Yankees tied the 1943 St. Louis Cardinals for the fewest runs allowed through the first five games of a season. New York has allowed three runs.
For the scorecards at home, the Yankees results so far are as follows: a 7-0 win against San Francisco on March 25, a 3-0 win against San Francisco on March 27, a 3-1 win against San Francisco on March 28, a 2-1 loss to Seattle on March 30, and a 5-0 win against Seattle on March 31.
Entering the season, The Athletic’s Jim Bowden ranked the Yankees’ starting rotation of Fried, Cam Schlittler, Will Warren, Ryan Weathers, and Luis Gil as the third-best in MLB. That’s before the Yanks get back former Cy Young winner Gerrit Cole from Tommy John surgery, which cost him all of 2025, or Clarke Schmidt from his July 2025 Tommy John surgery.
Carlos Rodón is on the 15-day IL with a hamstring injury.
The Yankees have one more game in Seattle on Wednesday before hosting their home opener against the Miami Marlins on Friday.