Aaron Judge brought Yankee Stadium to its feet on Friday night with a single swing of the bat. 

The Yankee captain and former MVP came up with the bases loaded and no one in the bottom of the seventh inning. The Yankees trailed the Boston Red Sox 4-1. 

Then Judge crushed a 2-0 pitch to deep right field for the type of home run that the crowd knows is gone before it leaves the infield. It gave the Yankees a 5-4 lead. The Yankees held the lead to win, taking the first two games of the series against Boston and extending their lead in the AL East over the Baltimore Orioles by three games. 

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The Yankee Stadium crowd erupted to one of its loudest cheers of the year, as the fans celebrated their star player’s big moment over their hated rival. 

For Judge, the grand slam actually broke one of his rare home run droughts. Going into Friday night’s game Judge had not hit a home run in 16 straight games, which was the longest stretch of his career without one. It’s a stretch that came amid, arguably, Judge’s best hitting season yet. 

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With the grand slam in hand, Judge collected the 52nd home run of the season, improving his average to .321 with a 1.143 OPS and 130 RBI. 

But before Friday, hfter he hit two home runs against the Colorado Rockies on Aug. 26, the six-time All-Star is hitting .204 (11 for 54) with 22 strikeouts in his net 15 games.

The prior longest homerless streak of Judge’s career came during his rookie season, when he did not leave the yard in 15 games from Aug. 17 through Sept. 2 in 2017. 

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Before his current drought, Judge was on a torrid pace, hitting nine home runs over 10 prior games, making people wonder if he had a chance to break his own American League record for most home runs in a season that he set in 2022 with 62 home runs. 

Still Judge is currently in the driver’s seat to win his second American League MVP award in three years. 

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UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer did not signal any decision on allowing Ukraine to use long-range missiles to hit targets inside Russia after talks with US President Joe Biden in Washington.

When asked if he had persuaded Biden to allow Ukraine to fire long-range Storm Shadow missiles into Russia, Sir Keir said they had had “a long and productive discussion on a number of fronts, including Ukraine, as you would expect, the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific”.

The White House said they also expressed “deep concern about Iran and North Korea’s provision of lethal weapons to Russia”.

Earlier Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Western nations not to let Ukraine fire long-range missiles at Russia.

Putin said such a move would represent Nato’s “direct participation” in the Ukraine war.

Addressing reporters ahead of his meeting with Sir Keir at the White House, Biden said: “I don’t think much about Vladimir Putin”.

To date, the US and UK have not given Ukraine permission to use long-range missiles against targets inside Russia, for fear of escalation.

However, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly called on Kyiv’s Western allies to authorise such use, saying it is the only way to bring about an end to the war.

Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Ukrainian cities and front lines have been under daily bombardment from Russia.

Many of the missiles and glide bombs that hit Ukraine’s military positions, blocks of flats, energy facilities and hospitals are launched by Russian aircraft deep inside Russia.

Kyiv says not being allowed to hit the bases from which these attacks are launched hinders its self-defence capability.

The UK previously said Ukraine had a “clear right” to use British-provided weapons for “self-defence” which “does not preclude operations inside Russia”, following Kyiv’s surprise cross-border incursion last month.

However, this excludes the use of long-range Storm Shadow missiles in territory outside Ukraine’s internationally recognised borders.

The US provided long-range missiles to Ukraine earlier this year, but like Kyiv’s other Western allies these have not been authorised for use on targets deep inside Russia.

Asked if he was intimidated by Putin’s threats of a potential war with Nato, Sir Keir said “the quickest way to resolve” the war in Ukraine “lies through what Putin actually does”.

Sir Keir said the White House meeting with Biden was an opportunity to discuss the strategy in relation to Ukraine, “not just a particular step or tactic”.

The pair also discussed the situation in the Middle East, where the Israel-Gaza war has been raging for nearly a year, and “other areas across the world”, Sir Keir added.

He told reporters they would get another opportunity to discuss these issues at the United Nations General Assembly next week.

In a separate briefing on Friday, ahead of the two leaders’ meeting, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Washington was not planning any change in the limits it has placed on Ukraine’s use of US-made weapons to hit Russian territory.

Earlier on Friday, Moscow expelled six British diplomats, revoking their accreditation and accusing them of spying.

The country’s security service, the FSB, said in a statement it had received documents indicating Britain’s involvement in inflicting “a strategic defeat” on Russia. The accusations were dismissed by the UK Foreign Office as “completely baseless”.

In an interview with the BBC, UK defence analyst Justin Crump said Putin was testing the new Labour government and the outgoing Biden administration.

“Ultimately Russia already supplies weapons to the UK’s adversaries, and is already engaged in ‘active measures’ such as subversion, espionage, sabotage, and information/cyber operations against Nato members’ interests.

“This may all accelerate, but picking a fight against all of Nato is not something Russia can afford given how hard they’re struggling against just Ukraine,” Mr Crump added.

Also on Friday, the US announced new sanctions against the Russian media channel RT, accusing it of being a “de facto arm of Russia’s intelligence apparatus”.

The top US diplomat, Antony Blinken, told reporters RT is part of a network of Russian-backed media outlets, which have sought to covertly “undermine democracy in the United States”.

In response to US allegations that RT had sought to influence elections, RT’s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan – who was sanctioned by the US last week – said they were excellent teachers, adding that many RT staff had studied in the US, and with US funding.

Russia’s foreign ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said there should be a “new profession” in the US, of specialist in sanctions imposed on Russia.

Former President Trump declined to endorse Republican candidate Steve Garvey in California’s U.S. Senate race during a stop in the state Friday, saying the former Dodger has not asked for his support.

“I don’t know much about Steve Garvey,” Trump said. “I think he’s made a big mistake because he hasn’t reached out to MAGA, and if he doesn’t have MAGA he’s got no chance.”

Trump made his remarks during an event at his Rancho Palos Verdes golf course, ahead of a planned fundraising event in the Bay Area on Friday afternoon.

Trump went on to contradict himself by saying that Garvey could win if he got the “MAGA endorsement,” but also that Garvey couldn’t win because California doesn’t have fair elections.

“If you had an honest election, he’d win. But you don’t have an honest election,” said Trump.

In response to Trump’s comments, Garvey said he was running “a different type of campaign” in which he has “not taken or asked for a single political endorsement” other than from “the law enforcement community and first responders.”

Garvey said he is focused on reaching out to California’s Latino community and “the issues that truly matter to Californians — affordability, public safety, securing the border, fixing the homeless crisis and restoring California’s leadership.”

Trump also attacked Garvey’s opponent in the Senate race, Rep. Adam B. Schiff. The Burbank Democrat has been one of Trump’s chief antagonists for years, helping to lead the investigation into Trump’s campaign ties to Russia, Trump’s first impeachment for soliciting political favors from Ukraine and his second impeachment for inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Trump called Schiff “one of the sleaziest politicians in history” and “one of the most disgusting human beings.”

“And to think he’s going to be a senator,” Trump said. “That’s why you need me as president, because this guy is a sleazebag. Adam Schiff to represent this area is impossible to believe.”

Schiff has consistently defended his work as standing up to a “corrupt president.”

By comparison, Trump called Garvey “a nice guy,” but also said that he doesn’t “know him at all.” He said he has not spoken to Garvey, but suggested Garvey should call him.

Associating too much with Trump could be viewed as a potential liability in California, where Democrats have a sizable advantage in voter registrations. That said, Trump retains strong support among Republicans in the state. Trump lost by nearly 2 to 1 in California in 2020, but still received 6 million votes.

Garvey has acknowledged voting for Trump repeatedly in the past, which Schiff has been happy to point out. But the Republican has tried to steer the Senate race away from Trump.

On Friday, Garvey said he is “running a ‘Steve Garvey’ campaign for all the people of California, not for partisan or special interests.”