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Aaron Judge has returned and is doing Aaron Judge stuff.
The New York Yankees star recently broke the AL single-season home run mark. He began his 2023 season with a first-inning home run against San Francisco Giants pitcher Logan Webb in a 5-0 Yankees victory on Thursday.
On a 0-1 count, Webb delivered a 93 mph sinker that crossed the center of the plate at the bottom part of the strike zone. Judge took a swipe at Yankee Stadium and blasted it 422 feet over the center-field wall.
It was the first home run of the new MLB season. On his journey back to the bench, Judge was greeted with customized festivities from his teammates, who were in midseason form. What a way to begin.
The obvious thing to do in this situation is to predict Judge's home run total based on this accomplishment. So let's be corny. Given the best-case scenario of Judge playing in all 162 games and a ballpark estimate of 4.5 at-bats per game, Judge's first-inning home run puts him on track for 769 home runs this season.
Unfortunately, Judge struck out in his second at-bat, and he ended the day 2-for-4 with the single home run, two RBIs, and two strikeouts. Nonetheless, the current AL MVP is off to a great start in the Bronx.
Both starting pitchers set strikeout records
Judge was not the only athlete to make a memorable start at Yankee Stadium in 2023. Each starting pitcher established his team's Opening Day strikeout mark on a day when scoring other than home runs was scarce.
In six innings, Yankees pitcher Gerrit Cole struck out 11 batters while walking only two. He took the victory. Webb outdueled Cole in six innings, striking out 12 and walking two. He was given the defeat due to four earned runs.
Gleyber Torres' two-run bomb off Webb in the third inning put the Yankees up 3-0, and the Yankees added two more safety runs in the seventh.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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