MILWAUKEE (AP) — Aaron Judge homered in the first inning and played a central role as a baserunner during a seven-run rally in the sixth as the New York Yankees defeated the Milwaukee Brewers 15-5 on Sunday.
Anthony Rizzo went 4 for 4 and hit his 300th career homer. Anthony Volpe added a three-run shot on his 23rd birthday. Judge went 3 for 4 with three RBIs, including a 441-foot solo shot.
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Aaron Judge homered in the first inning and played a central role as a baserunner during a seven-run rally in the sixth as the New York Yankees defeated the Milwaukee Brewers 15-5 on Sunday.
New York Yankees' Aaron Judge is hit by a pitch during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers Sunday, April 28, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
Milwaukee Brewers' Jake Bauers hits a three-run home run during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees Sunday, April 28, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
New York Yankees' Jose Trevino hits a two-run scoring single during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers Sunday, April 28, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
New York Yankees' Aaron Judge hits an RBI single during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers Sunday, April 28, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
Milwaukee Brewers manager Pat Murphy argues a call during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees Sunday, April 28, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
New York Yankees' Aaron Judge reacts after hitting a home run during the first inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers Sunday, April 28, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
New York also beat Milwaukee 15-3 on Saturday, marking the first time since 2007 that the Yankees scored at least 15 runs in back-to-back games.
New York grabbed a one-game lead in the AL East over the Baltimore Orioles, who lost 7-6 to Oakland. The Yankees begin a four-game series at Baltimore on Monday.
“We're excited,” Judge said. “We've been watching them from afar. They're a great team. They've got a young, great team, did a lot of great things last year, especially winning the division. We're excited to get out there and have some fun.”
Milwaukee's Jake Bauers, who played for the Yankees last season, went 3 for 5 with a three-run homer against his former team. The 28-year-old first baseman also pitched a scoreless ninth inning.
The game was tied at 4 before the Yankees’ sixth-inning outburst. All seven of their runs scored with two outs after the Brewers failed to turn a double play earlier in the inning because shortstop Willy Adames’ attempted throw to first hit Judge’s padded left hand.
Judge was on first after drawing a leadoff walk when Alex Verdugo hit a bouncer to second baseman Brice Turang, whose throw to Adames retired Judge at second. Judge raised his left arm as he slid into second, and Adames’ throw bounced off the 6-foot-7 slugger’s hand before hitting the ground.
Brewers manager Pat Murphy argued that Judge should have been called for interference, which would have left the Yankees with two out and nobody on base. The umpiring crew disagreed, enabling Verdugo to stay at first with one out.
“On the field, we got together and did the best that we could to come up with the correct answer,” crew chief Andy Fletcher told a pool reporter after the game. “After looking at it off the field in replay, it appears that the call was missed. It should’ve been called interference because it wasn’t a natural part of his slide. It didn’t appear that way to us.”
Judge said he merely slid into second the same way he has for years.
“You can look back at any picture you want of me sliding into second base," Judge said. “That's always happened.”
Verdugo scored the go-ahead run on Gleyber Torres’ single off Abner Uribe (2-2). The Yankees would score six more runs during a rally that culminated with a two-run single from Judge, who was booed by the American Family Field crowd.
“That changed the whole game,” Adames said of the botched double play and missed call.
New York’s seven-run outburst came after the Brewers erased a 4-0 deficit by scoring four runs in the fifth off Marcus Stroman.
Ron Marinaccio (1-0) earned the win after allowing one run in 1 1/3 innings.
TRAINERS' ROOM
Yankees: Manager Aaron Boone said “everything went really well” in RHP Gerrit Cole’s throwing session Saturday as the 2023 AL Cy Young Award winner returns from an elbow injury. Boone called it a “fairly intense day from a flat ground standpoint."
Brewers: Murphy said OF Christian Yelich's recovery from a lower back strain has “stalled a little bit." Murphy added that he doesn't think it's a long-term situation. “I think within a week we'll be in a better spot,” Murphy said. Yelich last played in a game on April 12.
YANKS SEND MOORE TO MINORS
The Yankees sent right-hander McKinley Moore outright to Triple-A Scranton-Wilkes Barre.
UP NEXT
Yankees: RHP Clarke Schmidt (2-0, 3.55 ERA) starts for the Yankees and RHP Grayson Rodriguez (3-1, 4.45 ERA) pitches for the Orioles on Monday.
Brewers: Open a three-game home series with Tampa Bay on Monday. RHP Bryse Wilson (2-0, 3.50 ERA) starts for the Brewers. RHP Ryan Pepiot (2-2, 3.77 ERA) pitches for the Rays.
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New York Yankees' Gleyber Torres hits an RBI single during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers Sunday, April 28, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
New York Yankees' Aaron Judge is hit by a pitch during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers Sunday, April 28, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
Milwaukee Brewers' Jake Bauers hits a three-run home run during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees Sunday, April 28, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
New York Yankees' Jose Trevino hits a two-run scoring single during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers Sunday, April 28, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
New York Yankees' Aaron Judge hits an RBI single during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers Sunday, April 28, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
Milwaukee Brewers manager Pat Murphy argues a call during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees Sunday, April 28, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
New York Yankees' Aaron Judge reacts after hitting a home run during the first inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers Sunday, April 28, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
TANAH DATAR, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers on Tuesday searched in rivers and the rubble of devastated villages for bodies, and whenever possible survivors, of flash floods that hit Indonesia’s Sumatra Island over the weekend.
Monsoon rains and a landslide of mud and cold lava from Mount Marapi caused rivers to breach their banks. The deluge tore through mountainside villages in four districts in West Sumatra province just before midnight Saturday.
The floods swept away people and 79 homes and submerged hundreds of houses and buildings, forcing more than 3,300 residents to flee to temporary government shelters, National Disaster Management Agency spokesperson Abdul Muhari said.
The National Search and Rescue Agency said in a statement that 52 bodies had been pulled from mud and rivers by Tuesday, mostly in the worst-hit Agam and Tanah Datar districts, while rescuers are searching for 20 people who are reportedly missing.
Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency said that more downpours were forecast for the West Sumatra province in the coming days, and that the danger of extreme rainfall would continue until next week. The agency recommended the application of weather modification to reduce rain.
National Disaster Management Agency chief Suharyanto said that authorities would start seeding clouds in the province in a bid to prevent further rainfall and flash floods.
“We are deploying weather modification technology starting tomorrow so that rain does not fall during this emergency response period,” Suharyanto, who goes by a single name like many Indonesians, told reporters while visiting devastated areas in Agam district. He added that the emergency response will be ended on May 25.
Television reports showed rescue personnel using jackhammers, circular saws, farm tools and sometimes their bare hands, digging desperately in Agam district where roads were transformed into murky brown rivers and villages covered by thick mud, rocks, and uprooted trees.
Scores of rescue personnel were searching through a river around the Anai Valley Waterfall area in Tanah Datar district where tons of mud, rocks and trees were left from flash floods.
Rescuers were focused on finding four people from a group of seven that were swept away with their cars. Three other bodies were pulled out on Monday, said Abdul Malik, who heads the Search and Rescue Office in Padang, the provincial capital.
“With many missing and some remote areas still unreachable, the death toll was likely to rise,” Malik said.
Heavy rains cause frequent landslides and flash floods in Indonesia, an archipelago nation of more than 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near floodplains.
The weekend disaster came just two months after heavy rains triggered flash floods and a landslide in West Sumatra, killing at least 26 people and leaving 11 others missing.
A surprise eruption of Mount Marapi late last year killed 23 climbers. The mountain’s sudden eruptions are difficult to predict because the source is shallow and near the peak, according to Indonesia’s Center for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation.
Marapi has been active since an eruption in January 2024 that caused no casualties. It is among more than 120 active volcanoes in Indonesia. The country is prone to seismic upheaval because of its location on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.
Associated Press writer Niniek Karmini in Jakarta, Indonesia contributed to this report.
People inspect the damage by a flash flood in Agam, West Sumatra,Indonesia, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Rescuers on Tuesday searched in rivers and the rubble of devastated villages for bodies, and whenever possible, survivors of flash floods that hit Indonesia's Sumatra Island over the weekend. (AP Photo/ Fachri Hamzah)
People inspect the damage by a flash flood in Agam, West Sumatra, Indonesia, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Rescuers on Tuesday searched in rivers and the rubble of devastated villages for bodies, and whenever possible, survivors of flash floods that hit Indonesia's Sumatra Island over the weekend. (AP Photo/Fachri Hamzah)
People inspect the damage by a flash flood in Agam, West Sumatra, Indonesia, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Rescuers on Tuesday searched in rivers and the rubble of devastated villages for bodies, and whenever possible, survivors of flash floods that hit Indonesia's Sumatra Island over the weekend. (AP Photo/Sutan Malik Kayo)
People inspect the damage by a flash flood in Agam, West Sumatra,Indonesia, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Rescuers on Tuesday searched in rivers and the rubble of devastated villages for bodies, and whenever possible, survivors of flash floods that hit Indonesia's Sumatra Island over the weekend. (AP Photo/Sutan Malik Kayo)
This drone photo shows the damage at a village affected by a flash flood in Agam, West Sumatra, Indonesia, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Rescuers on Tuesday searched in rivers and the rubble of devastated villages for bodies, and whenever possible, survivors of flash floods that hit Indonesia's Sumatra Island over the weekend. (AP Photo/Sutan Malik Kayo)
This drone photo shows the damage at a village affected by a flash flood in Agam, West Sumatra, Indonesia, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Rescuers on Tuesday searched in rivers and the rubble of devastated villages for bodies, and whenever possible, survivors of flash floods that hit Indonesia's Sumatra Island over the weekend. (AP Photo/Sutan Malik Kayo)
People examine the damage at an area badly affected by a flash flood in Tanah Datar, West Sumatra, Indonesia, Monday, May 13, 2024. Heavy rains and torrents of cold lava and mud flowing down a volcano's slopes on Indonesia's Sumatra island triggered flash floods causing a number of people dead and missing, officials said Sunday. (AP Photo/Ali Nayaka)
People inspect buildings damaged by a flash flood in Agam, West Sumatra, Indonesia, Monday, May 13, 2024. Rescuers recovered more bodies Monday after monsoon rains triggered flash floods on Indonesia's Sumatra Island, bringing down torrents of cold lava and mud, leaving a number of people killed and missing. (AP Photo/Fachri Hamzah)
A man makes his way among the rubble near the wreckage of a car at a village affected by a flash flood in Agam, West Sumatra, Indonesia, Monday, May 13, 2024. Rescuers recovered more bodies Monday after monsoon rains triggered flash floods on Indonesia's Sumatra Island, bringing down torrents of cold lava and mud, leaving a number of people killed and missing. (AP Photo/Fachri Hamzah)
A man walks among the rubble near a house damaged by a flash flood in Agam, West Sumatra, Indonesia, Monday, May 13, 2024. Rescuers recovered more bodies Monday after monsoon rains triggered flash floods on Indonesia's Sumatra Island, bringing down torrents of cold lava and mud, leaving a number of people killed and missing. (AP Photo/Fachri Hamzah)
Rescuers search for victims of a flash flood in Tanah Datar, West Sumatra, Indonesia, Monday, May 13, 2024. Heavy rains and torrents of cold lava and mud flowing down a volcano's slopes on Indonesia's Sumatra island triggered flash floods causing a number of people dead and missing, officials said Sunday. (AP Photo/Ali Nayaka)
This drone photo shows the damage at a village affected by a flash flood in Tanah Datar, West Sumatra, Indonesia, Monday, May 13, 2024. Heavy rains and torrents of cold lava and mud flowing down a volcano's slopes on Indonesia's Sumatra island triggered flash floods causing a number of people dead and missing, officials said Sunday. (AP Photo/Ali Nayaka)
Rescuers carry the body of a victim of a flash flood in Tanah Datar, West Sumatra, Indonesia, Monday, May 13, 2024. Heavy rains and torrents of cold lava and mud flowing down a volcano's slopes on Indonesia's Sumatra island triggered flash floods causing a number of people dead and missing, officials said Sunday. (AP Photo/Ali Nayaka)
