NEW YORK -- Aaron Judge hit his 359th career home run , breaking a tie with Yogi Berra for fifth place on the all-time franchise list, and Will Warren navigated six solid innings of two-run ball. The Yankees could only have wished the evening had stopped right there.
Fernando Cruz and Mark Leiter Jr. endured a nightmarish seventh inning, seeing the Tigers bat around for nine runs as the Yankees fell to Detroit, 12-2 , on Tuesday evening at Yankee Stadium. It was the biggest inning permitted by New York this season.
Things started on a much more promising note, beginning with Judge, who belted a first-inning Casey Mize splitter to the back of the right-field bullpen for his 44th home run of the season.
Babe Ruth hit 659 of his 714 home runs in a Yankees uniform, followed by Mickey