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Watch: Yankees' Judge sentences ball to death

Charles LeClaire / USA TODAY Sports / Reuters

There will be no stay of execution for the baseball that Pittsburgh Pirates left-hander Antonio Bastardo served up Saturday to New York Yankees rookie Aaron Judge, who sentenced it to death in the ninth inning of an 11-5 victory at PNC Park.

Judge, who took the field Saturday leading all MLB rookies in home runs, added to his total when he unloaded on Bastardo's 2-2 cutter with nobody out in the ninth, launching it 457 feet - the sixth-longest of the young season - with an exit velocity of 115.6 mph, according to Statcast. Both those figures represent career bests for the 24-year-old.

"I'm not so sure I saw it land," Yankees manager Joe Girardi told Andrew Mearns and Bob Cohn from MLB.com. "Sometimes these balls these guys hit so far, I just can't follow 'em."

Justice has been served.

(Video courtesy: MLB.com)

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