Aaron Judge is dead-to-rights wrong in his Twitter beef with Eduardo Pérez

Last night, following an excruciatingly tenuous, almost-five-hour victory in Kansas City, in which the Yankees blew four save opportunities, Aaron Judge took to Twitter, perhaps in an attempt to wind down from the stressful activity of the evening. With his notifications ablaze after a blue checkmark fired off a critique directed at the big fella, Judge decided to jump headfirst into a losing battle at almost 1 a.m. in Missouri. A few hours earlier, Eduardo Pérez, the 13-year big leaguer and son of a Hall of Famer, called out Judge and the Yankees for their season-long tradition of sloppy baserunning, which ended up costing them in the seventh inning of Monday night’s contest. The Situation: With one out in the top of the seventh, Giancarlo Stanton was on first, and Aaron Judge was on third. DJ LeMahieu stepped into the box with a chance to drive in the game’s first run. On a nubber back to the mound, Judge decided to take off for home. After a hotly-contested, bang-bang play at the plate, Judge was called out, a controversial ruling which was upheld after a video review by the umpiring crew. Pérez’s critique: We need a better secondary lead by…
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