Aaron Judge's remarkable season continued into Kansas City with a 469-foot oversized home run

Aaron Judge made his first swing in the Yankees' 10-2 win on Tuesday when he knocked a mid-lane speedball out of Statcast's estimated 469 feet — the farthest home run of the season by the two-time American League MVP and the longest flight in Kaufman Stadium this year.

The two-point shot landed on top of the Royals Hall of Fame building far away from the left field, bounced off and hit the signage – the only obstacle that prevented it from flying off the pitch and into the outfield corridor. It was the seventh-longest home run of Judge's career, one foot more than his best distance of the season (against Milwaukee on March 29) and nearly touched an unprecedented area at Kaufman Field.

It was Judge's 10th first-inning home run of the season, which is far from finishing third in the major leagues this season, behind Mike Trout's 484-foot and Logan O'Hoppe's 470-foot hit. After contributing 3+ RBIs in a single game for the seventh time of the season, Judge leads the major leagues with a batting percentage of 0.396, a base percentage of 0.491, a batting percentage of 0.776, a batting percentage of 1.267OPS, 97 batters and 43 batting averages.

Judge's long-range home run-like shot — in front of a crowd cheering for the home debut of Royals' top rookie Jac Caglianone — set the tone for the Yankees' 10-point burst. Catcher Austin Wells followed up after Judge: In the fourth inning, Jasson Domínguez (three hits) and DJ LeMahieu (two hits, two ties) opened the two-out run with two first-run hits, and Wells blasted the ball into the right Buffalo Barn to form a three-point shot. In the sixth inning, Wells hit a two-point second base hit from the right field line to reach five points per game (tying a career record set on May 6).

The Yankees then hit four first-run hits in a row, including a dot hit by Cody Bellinger — the 1,000th of his career — to complete a five-point surge in a single inning. That's more than enough for Max Fried, who continues to compete for the American League Youngsters, conceding two runs in seven innings and improving his defense to 1.84 — the fifth-best in the major leagues.

Judge's home run helped the Yankees (40-25) become only the second American League team to reach 40 wins, extending a six-game winning streak against the Kansas Royals — back to the third and fourth wins of the Yankees' American League Division Series last October.