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Aaron Judge may not be in the lineup for the New York Yankees, but his bat has been helping them out anyway through Jazz Chisholm Jr. Two clutch, game-sealing home runs have come off Judge’s bat since he went on the Injured List, with Chisholm borrowing his teammate’s club to try breaking out of a slump.
Initially, Chisholm revealed that he didn’t ask before borrowing the bat and crushing a three-run home run to put the Yankees up five in the bottom of the eighth last week against Boston. But after another home run to break a late tie against the Guardians, he may not need to ask anymore.
Jazz Chisholm Jr. continues raking with Aaron Judge’s bat
Where are the runs going to come from with Aaron Judge on the Injured List? This is a question that has plagued the Yankees at times throughout the years. If Judge gets hurt, the offense takes a big hit. So far, though, it hasn’t derailed what looked like a promising season. They’re averaging 5.25 runs without Judge compared to 5.03 with Judge, although the sample size matters here.
Jazz Chisholm Jr. has struggled this year, but since Judge went down, he has three home runs in eight contests. Two of those have come with Judge’s bat. It’s not the first time Chisholm Jr. has borrowed Judge’s bat. He used it in his second game with the Yankees in 2024 and homered. He also used it in 2025, but he swung it too hard and hurt himself.
It’s not the first time Chisholm has borrowed other teammates’ equipment to bust out of a slump, either. Earlier this year, he tried wearing Trent Grisham’s pants, and he saw an uptick in production. But when he switched to Giancarlo Stanton’s pants (and there’s a big gap between those two in size), he got red-hot.
Whatever it takes, Chisholm Jr. is doing it to try and break out and help the Yankees. So far, it’s worked, and the Yankees, thanks to the clutch home run, became the first AL team to 40 wins as they continue trying to survive Judge’s absence.
Loves being a villain
Jazz Chisholm Jr. doesn’t really care what others think of him. He actually enjoys getting under the skin of opponents, and he relishes it when he can make teams pay because he knows they typically want anyone else to beat them. That included last night against the Guardians, as “overrated” chants were hurled at him.
“I love it. Kind of,” Chisholm said. “I feel like that was the loudest chants all day we heard, so I think it was great.” He crushed a pitch that towered into the night sky and landed over the fence, watching it from home plate for a while before running.
“I swung at the first pitch and realized that it was going to be tough to hit the slider on the outside corner, so I was just waiting on a ball to start right at me. I got one and handled it,” the second baseman added. “He’s a good pitcher and doesn’t really miss the spot. So for him to miss in that situation right there in that spot, it’s just like a huge sigh of relief.”
That pushed the Yanks to 40-26 and .003 percentage points back of the AL East leaders, the Tampa Bay Rays.
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