Judge becomes fastest to reach 300 homers, Soto connects again as Yankees beat White Sox 10-2

CHICAGO (AP) — Aaron Judge reached 300 home runs faster than any other player, going deep in the New York Yankees' 10-2 win over the Chicago White Sox on Wednesday night.

Judge hit the mark in his 955th game and 3,431st at-bat with a three-run drive in the eighth inning.. The six-time All-Star and 2022 American League MVP drove a 3-0 up-and-in sinker Chad Kuhl into the White Sox bullpen in left for his major league-leading 43rd homer.

Ralph Kiner reached 300 homers in his 1,087th game, and Babe Ruth did in his 3,831st at-bat.

“What Aaron’s doing, it’s a select few in the history of the game that you start talking about these kinds of seasons he’s having,” manager Aaron Boone said. “Just a great player, great leader and I think everyone’s obviously really pumped in there that he got that done.”

Chicago had intentionally walked Juan Soto to bring up Judge, who had not homered on a 3-0 pitch since 2021.

Soto had homered in the first inning off Davis Martin, his fourth in two games and 34th this season.

Austin Wells followed Judge’s drive with one of his own, the eighth time this season New York hit back-to-back homers. He also capped a three-run seventh by driving in two with a single that put the Yankees on top 4-2.

Gavin Sheets hit his first big league opposite-field homer leading off the second against rookie Will Warren and singled in a run in the fourth for a 2-1 lead. But with a chance to take two of three from the AL East leaders, the White Sox lost for the 26th time in 28 games.

Chicago lost its 12th straight series and dropped to 29-93. The White Sox are on pace to finish 39-123, which would be the most losses since the 1899 Cleveland Spiders went 20-134.

Oswaldo Cabrera got the Yankees going when he singled leading off the seventh against Justin Anderson and became the first Yankee to score from second on a sacrifice fly since Jorge Posada against the Los Angeles Angels on Aug. 19, 2000, Cabrera did it when right fielder Dominic Fletcher ran down Alex Verdugo’s drive against Dominic Leone (0-2) in the gap, hanging onto the ball and rolling on the warning track after he tried to avoid a sliding Luis Robert Jr. Posada did it standing up when left fielder Ron Gant lost track of the outs.

Cabrera was “a little bit” surprised to see third-base coach Luis Rojas send him. “But at the same time, I was ready for it,” he said.

Soto walked and Judge doubled, putting runners on second and third, before Wells singled for a 4-2 lead.

Warren went five innings, allowing two runs and seven hits after being recalled from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. The right-hander struck out five and walked none in his third career start.

Tim Hill (4-0) got the win and Michael Tonkin pitched three innings for his second save.

Martin gave up one run and four hits in 5 2/3 innings. The right-hander struck out five and walked three.

TRAINER'S ROOM

Yankees: New York placed 3B Jazz Chisholm Jr. (sprained left elbow) on the 10-day injured list and was waiting for more doctors to weigh in to determine whether he needs surgery, manager Aaron Boone said. Chisholm was hurt on a headfirst dive scoring in the fifth inning of Monday’s 12-2 loss to the White Sox. The 2022 All-Star downplayed the injury afterward, saying he wasn’t “super concerned about it.” ... RHP Lou Trivino (right elbow surgery) began a rehab assignment with Double-A Somerset

White Sox: Leone exited with a sore right elbow.

UP NEXT

Yankees: RHP Gerrit Cole (3-2, 4.70) gets the ball as the Yankees open a three-game series at Detroit on Friday. He has allowed two runs or fewer in four of his past five starts. Detroit had not announced a starter.

White Sox: LHP Garrett Crochet (6-9, 3.65 ERA) looks to bounce back from one of the worst starts of his career when the White Sox open a weekend series at Houston on Friday. The All-Star gave up a career-high four homers and matched one by surrendering seven runs in a 7-6 loss to the crosstown Cubs last week. RHP Spencer Arrighetti (5-10, 5.14) starts for Houston.

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New York Yankees designated hitter Aaron Judge, right, celebrates with Alex Verdugo after after hitting his 300th career home run, the fastest player to do so in MLB history, during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Chicago White Sox, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

New York Yankees designated hitter Aaron Judge runs the bases after hitting his 300th career home run, the fastest player to do so in MLB history, during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Chicago White Sox, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

New York Yankees designated hitter Aaron Judge celebrates after hitting his 300th career home run, the fastest player to do so in MLB history, during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Chicago White Sox, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

New York Yankees designated hitter Aaron Judge runs the bases after hitting his 300th career home run, the fastest player to do so in MLB history, during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Chicago White Sox, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

New York Yankees designated hitter Aaron Judge celebrates after hitting his 300th career home run, the fastest player to do so in MLB history, during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Chicago White Sox, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

New York Yankees designated hitter Aaron Judge celebrates after hitting his 300th career home run, the fastest player to do so in MLB history, during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Chicago White Sox, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

New York Yankees designated hitter Aaron Judge hits his 300th career home run, the fastest playing in MLB history to do so, during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Chicago White Sox, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

Instagram is introducing separate teen accounts for those under 18 as it tries to make the platform safer for children amid a growing backlash against how social media affects young people's lives.

Beginning Tuesday in the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia, anyone under under 18 who signs up for Instagram will be placed into a teen account and those with existing accounts will be migrated over the next 60 days. Teens in the European Union will see their accounts adjusted later this year.

Meta acknowledges that teenagers may lie about their age and says it will require them to verify their ages in more instances, like if they try to create a new account with an adult birthday. The Menlo Park, California company also said it is building technology that proactively finds teen accounts that pretend to be grownups and automatically places them into the restricted teen accounts.

The teen accounts will be private by default. Private messages are restricted so teens can only receive them from people they follow or are already connected to. “Sensitive content,” such as videos of people fighting or those promoting cosmetic procedures, will be limited, Meta said. Teens will also get notifications if they are on Instagram for more than 60 minutes and a “sleep mode” will be enabled that turns off notifications and sends auto-replies to direct messages from 10 p.m. until 7 a.m.

While these settings will be turned on for all teens, 16 and 17-year-olds will be able to turn them off. Kids under 16 will need their parents' permission to do so.

“The three concerns we’re hearing from parents are that their teens are seeing content that they don’t want to see or that they’re getting contacted by people they don’t want to be contacted by or that they’re spending too much on the app,” said Naomi Gleit, head of product at Meta. “So teen accounts is really focused on addressing those three concerns.”

The announcement comes as the company faces lawsuits from dozens of U.S. states that accuse it of harming young people and contributing to the youth mental health crisis by knowingly and deliberately designing features on Instagram and Facebook that addict children to its platforms.

In the past, Meta's efforts at addressing teen safety and mental health on its platforms have been met with criticism that the changes don't go far enough. For instance, while kids will get a notification when they've spent 60 minutes on the app, they will be able to bypass it and continue scrolling.

That's unless the child's parents turn on “parental supervision” mode, where parents can limit teens' time on Instagram to a specific amount of time, such as 15 minutes.

With the latest changes, Meta is giving parents more options to oversee their kids' accounts. Those under 16 will need a parent or guardian's permission to change their settings to less restrictive ones. They can do this by setting up “parental supervision” on their accounts and connecting them to a parent or guardian.

Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, said last week that parents don't use the parental controls the company has introduced in recent years.

Gleit said she thinks teen accounts will create a “big incentive for parents and teens to set up parental supervision.”

“Parents will be able to see, via the family center, who is messaging their teen and hopefully have a conversation with their teen,” she said. “If there is bullying or harassment happening, parents will have visibility into who their teen’s following, who’s following their teen, who their teen has messaged in the past seven days and hopefully have some of these conversations and help them navigate these really difficult situations online.”

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said last year that tech companies put too much on parents when it comes to keeping children safe on social media.

“We’re asking parents to manage a technology that’s rapidly evolving that fundamentally changes how their kids think about themselves, how they build friendships, how they experience the world — and technology, by the way, that prior generations never had to manage,” Murthy said in May 2023.

File - The Instagram logo is seen on a cell phone in Boston, Oct. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

FILE - Students use their cellphones as they leave for the day the Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts High School in downtown Los Angeles, Aug. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)