President Trump Shakes Judge’s Hand, Judge Hits 2 HR’s. NY 9 Detroit 3

September 12, 2025 paperbacklou 2025 0
Aaron Judge hits HR #45 on the season to give NY 1-0 lead in the 1st, just after shaking hand with President Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th President of the United States.

It was a solemn day at Yankee Stadium in honor of September 11th, played in the dark shadow of the Charlie Kirk assassination of the day before.

President Trump was on hand, receiving overwhelming and thunderous applause from the fans at Yankee Stadium — including loud chants of “Donald Trump!, Donald Trump!, Donald Trump!”, followed by USA!, USA!, USA! when the jumbotron showed Trump.

Before the game, President Trump visited the Yankee team in their clubhouse — as videos published on Twitter/X showed — and the team received him with enthusiasm.

In one video Trump is seen shaking Aaron Judge‘s hand — telling him what a great player he is — then telling the Yankee team they are going to win — they’ll see what they can do in the playoffs but they’ll start by winning tonite.

And so the Yankees went out and shook off their 2 crushing losses to Detroit of the prior 2 evenings, and ripped apart the Tigers 9-3 as Aaron Judge hit 2 HR’s and went 3 for 4.

Just like when the Red Sox won 10 in a row after visiting Trump a month ago.

Cam Schlittler ‘threw down’ — 6 innings of 1 run ball — and Giancarlo Stanton also hit a HR as the Yanks raced out to a 9-1 lead in the 4th inning, and coasted.

“We put on a show. He came in here and told us we were going to win, so I think that gave everybody the confidence in the room to go out there and do it,” said Aaron Judge afterwards about President Donald Trump’s effect on the game. “But I guess we gotta have him around more often when we go out there and score that many runs and do something like that.”

NY salvages 1 game of the 3 game series and improves to 81-65 — remaining 3 back of Toronto, but moving .5 ahead of idle Boston. Detroit falls to 84-63.

1. President Trump Visits Yanks in Clubhouse Prior to Game

President Trump visited the Yankee clubhouse before the game and received a very warm welcome. Trump said that he and George Streinbrenner had been close friends, and every time he visited Yankee Stadium the Yankees won.

Amongst the videos that surfaced were one of President Trump dapping up Aaron Judge.

2. President Trump Receives Wild Applause at the Stadium

Then the pregame September 11th ceremonies were made and the game began. Trump received thunderous applause.

The great majority of Yankee fans welcomed Trump with great enthusiasm.

Trump Receives Wild Applause When Shown on Jumbotron in 2nd

Trump sat through most of the game. In the 2nd inning, the Yankee Stadium jumbotron showed him and the fans went wild again.

3. Judge HR Puts NY Up 1-0 in 1st

And so after shaking President Trump’s hand, Aaron Judge went up against Detroit ‘opener’ Tyler Horton in the bottom of the 1st, and hit his 45th HR of the season.

4. Yanks Take 3-0 Lead in 2nd

Holton allowed a leadoff single to Jazz Chisholm Jr. in the bottom of the 2nd, and was relieved by Sawyer Gipson-Long — a 27-year-old, 6’4 righty reliever.

The Yanks were all over him.

He struck out Paul Goldschmidt but Ben Rice doubled in Chisholm for a 2-0 Yankee lead.

Next batter Jose Caballero — playing shortstop for the 2nd day in a row over Anthony Volpe — singled to left for a 3-0 Yankee lead.

5. Judge HR (#2) & Stanton HR Put NY Up 5-1 in 3rd

Aaron Judge — in his 2nd at bat after his handshake with President Trump — hit a 434-foot BOMB to center for a 4-0 Yankee lead — his 2nd HR in 2 at bats. It was his 361st career HR, tying him with Joe DiMaggio on the Yankee All Time Homerun list.

A batter later, Giancarlo Stanton hit a 429-foot MISSILE to left for a 5-0 Yankee lead.

6. Yanks Make It 9-1 in 4th

And the Yankees just kept pouring it on against Gipson-Long in the bottom of the 4th. Ben Rice led off with a double, Jose Caballero singled to right, Ryan McMahon struck out, but Austin Slater singled to right for a 6-1 lead.

Aaron Judge came up for his 3rd time — and was hit with a pitch.

Gipson-Long was yanked in favor of B Horn, and the Yanks hit him too.

Cody Bellinger singled in a run to make it 7-1.

A batter later, Jazz Chisholm Jr. singled in 2 more runs and it was 9-1.

7. Schlittler Pitched Great

Meanwhile Cam Schlittler was great — again. His easy-motion 100-MPH fastball was moving, his cutter was cutting, and his curveball was Nasty.

Dingler Does the Trump Dance After Singling in Run in 2nd

The only guy who gave Schlittler trouble on the evening was Dillon Dingler — who worked an 11-pitch at bat against Schlittler with runners on 1st and 2nd and 1 out in the 2nd — before singling in a run to tie the game 1-1 at the time. As he reached 1st base, he did the Trump dance.

But Schlittler struck out Parker Meadows and got Javy Baez to ground out to end the 2nd, and cruised after that — pitching a 1-2-3 inning in the 3rd and 4th.

Schlittler got in trouble in the 5th — a 1-out single to Parker Meadows, and then consecutive 2-out walks to Gleyber Torres and Kerry Carpenter to load the bases. But Schlittler struck out Greene to end the threat and leave the bases loaded. The score was 9-1 at the time.

Schlittler finished with a 1-2-3 inning in the 6th.

8. Trump Stayed Through Most of the Game

President Donald J. Trump stayed through most of the game — and could be seen doing the Trump dance during the YMCA grounds crew dance in the 5th.

9. Yarbrough Good in Last 3 Innings

Ryan Yarbrough pitched the 7th thru 9th — and pitched well. He allowed a solo HR to Dingler leading off the 7th, pitched a shutout 8th, then allowed a 1-out triple off the wall in center to Javy Baez, and an RBI groundout to Gleyber Torres in the 9th — making it a 9-3 game — before getting Kerry Carpenter to ground out for the old ballgame.

Etcetera

It was announced before the game by manager Aaron Boone that Anthony Volpe has been playing the season with a partial labrum tear, incurred in May.

Before the game, President Trump asked Volpe how his golf game was, and Volpe said “It’s horrible.”

The Boxscore

https://www.espn.com/mlb/boxscore/_/gameId/401697100

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