Aaron Judge hit his major league-leading 55th homer of the season, Gleyber Torres and Jasson Domínguez also went deep and the Yankees beat the Oakland Athletics 7-4 for a three-game sweep that moved New York to the verge of an AL East title.

One of the Yankees’ heroes was Northern California native Aaron Judge, who blasted his 55th homer a day after hitting No. 54. Judge grew up 90 miles east of Oakland in tiny Linden, Calif. He remembers going to A’s games only one or two times as a kid because he was a Giants fan and preferred trips to San Francisco.

A Linden, California native, Aaron Judge grew up a Giants fan. But that didn’t stop him from visiting the home of the Bay Area’s other team, the Athletics. Earlier this season, Judge said that he