Judge matches Ruth with 321 homers in first 1,000 Yankees games in 9-4 win over struggling Pirates

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Aaron Judge marked his 1,000th game by hitting his sixth homer of the season and the New York Yankees beat Pittsburgh 9-4 on Friday in the Pirates' home opener.

Judge's shot to the seats in right-center in the seventh off Tim Mayza — who surrendered Judge's 61st home run during Judge's record-breaking 2022 season — boosted his career total to 321, the most by a player through his first 1,000 games. Those 321 homers also matched the number hit by Babe Ruth during his first 1,000 games with the Yankees.

Coming off his second AL MVP award, Judge has 17 RBIs in seven games.

Oswaldo Cabrera went 3 for 4 with four RBIs for New York. Anthony Volpe added three hits as the Yankees gave Max Fried (1-0) more than enough run support for the left-hander to collect his first Yankees win in pinstripes. Fried allowed one run and six hits with a walk and six strikeouts in 5 2/3 innings.

Pittsburgh's Mitch Keller (1-1) didn't make it out of the fourth inning on his 29th birthday. Six days removed from relatively smooth sailing against Miami, Keller didn't fare so well against the torpedo-bat-wielding Yankees.

While Keller kept New York in the yard during 3 2/3 innings, that's about all that went right. Keller allowed seven runs, eight hits and and four strikeouts as Pittsburgh fell to 2-6.

Ke'Bryan Hayes and Bryan Reynolds both hit their first homers of the season for the Pirates, who were met with chants of “Sell The Team” on a handful of occasions, most audibly during back-to-back plays in the third in which shortstop Isiah Kiner-Falefa and recently acquired outfielder Alexander Canario made shaky plays in the field.

After Reynolds' solo shot in the third gave the Pirates a small boost, the Yankees scored three runs in the fourth — all with two outs — to push their advantage to 8-1.

139-38 — New York's record since 2020 when Judge goes deep.

LHP Bailey Falter (0-0, 3.00 ERA) starts for Pittsburgh on Saturday and RHP Marcus Stroman (0-0, 5.79) for New York.

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People watch a helicopter flyover of PNC Park before the home-opening baseball game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the New York Yankees in Pittsburgh, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Mitch Keller delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees in Pittsburgh, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

New York Yankees pitcher Max Fried delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates in Pittsburgh, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Pittsburgh Pirates owner Bob Nutting visits the field for pre-game activities before the team's home-opening baseball game against the New York Yankees in Pittsburgh, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Pittsburgh Pirates manager Derek Shelton, bottom, stands in the dugout with bench coach Don Kelly, top, during the first inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees in Pittsburgh, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

New York Yankees' manager Aaron Boone stands in the dugout during the first inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates in Pittsburgh, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

New York Yankees' Jazz Chisholm Jr. stands on-deck during the first inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates in Pittsburgh, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

New York Yankees' Jasson Domínguez, center, and Trent Grisham, right, are greeted by Ben Rice (22) after scoring on a single by Oswaldo Cabrera off Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher Mitch Keller during the second inning of a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Pittsburgh Pirates' Bryan Reynolds crosses home plate after hitting a solo home run off New York Yankees starting pitcher Max Fried during the third inning of a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

New York Yankees' Aaron Judge spits out his gum after striking out against Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Mitch Keller in the second inning of a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Pittsburgh Pirates' Bryan Reynolds, top, rounds the bases after hitting a solo home run off New York Yankees starting pitcher Max Fried (54) during the third inning of a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

New York Yankees' Oswaldo Cabrera hts an RBI single off Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Mitch Keller during the third inning of a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

New York Yankees' Jazz Chisholm Jr. (13) swings and misses on a pitch from Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Tim Mayza during the seventh inning of a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

New York Yankees starting pitcher Max Fried delivers during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates in Pittsburgh, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

New York Yankees' Aaron Judge celebrates as he rounds the bases after hitting a two-run home run off Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Tim Mayza during the seventh inning of a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

New York Yankees' Aaron Judge celebrates with Jazz Chisholm Jr. (13) after hitting a two-run home run off Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Tim Mayza during the seventh inning of a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

New York Yankees' Aaron Judge, left, celebrates with Ben Rice after hitting a two-run home run off Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Tim Mayza during the seventh inning of a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

BANGKOK (AP) — Long-shot efforts to find survivors from Myanmar’s devastating March 28 earthquake were winding down Monday, as rescue efforts were supplanted by increasing relief and recovery activity. The death toll surpassed 3,600 and was still climbing.

A situation report issued late Monday by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA, said more than 17.2 million people are living in affected areas, and urgently need food, drinking water, health care, cash assistance and emergency shelter.

In the capital, Naypyitaw, people cleared debris and collected wood from their damaged houses under drizzling rain, and soldiers removed wreckage at some Buddhist monasteries.

Myanmar Fire Services Department said Monday that rescue teams had recovered 10 bodies from the rubble of a collapsed building in Mandalay, Myanmar’s second biggest city.

It said international rescuers from Singapore, Malaysia and India had returned to their countries after their work to find survivors was considered completed. The number of rescue teams operating in the residential areas of Naypyitaw has been steadily decreasing.

The 7.7 magnitude quake hit a wide swath of the country, causing significant damage to six regions and states. The earthquake left many areas without power, telephone or cell connections and damaged roads and bridges, making the full extent of the devastation hard to assess.

Maj. Gen. Zaw Min Tun, a spokesperson for the military government, said late Monday that the quake’s death toll has reached 3,600, with 5,017 injured and 160 missing. He said search and rescue operations involved 1,738 personnel from 20 countries, and had helped find and extract 653 survivors.

He also said the quake has officially been named “the Big Mandalay Earthquake” to ensure consistency in future documentation and referencing. Previous significant earthquakes also received official names.

“Entire communities have been upended, forcing people to seek shelter in makeshift conditions, disrupting markets, worsening psychosocial distress and bringing essential services—including running water, sanitation and health—to the verge of collapse,” said the report from OCHA.

“People left homeless by the earthquakes are exposed to extreme heat during the country’s hottest and driest month of the year, and rains have already started in Mandalay — posing an additional threat to those sheltering in the open,” it noted.

Myanmar’s military government and its battlefield opponents, meanwhile, have been trading accusations over alleged violations of ceasefire declarations each had declared to ease earthquake relief efforts.

Myanmar has been in turmoil since the army’s 2021 takeover ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, which led to nationwide peaceful protests that escalated into armed resistance and what now amounts to civil war.

Although the military government and its armed opponents declared unilateral ceasefires for a temporary period, reports of continued fighting are widespread, with the army receiving the most criticism for continuing aerial bombing, according to independent Myanmar media and eyewitnesses.

Independent confirmation of fighting is difficult because of the remoteness of the areas in which much of it takes place and restrictions on journalists.

The Three Brotherhood Alliance, a trio of powerful ethnic minority guerrilla armies, declared a unilateral temporary ceasefire on April 1, following an earlier declaration by the opposition National Unity Government, or NUG.

The NUG, which leads the pro-democracy resistance, said its armed wing, the People’s Defense Force, would cease offensive actions for two weeks.

On Wednesday, the army announced a similar unilateral ceasefire, as did another ethnic minority group among its foes, the Kachin Independence Organization.

All sides reserved the right to act in self-defense.

The Ta’ang National Liberation Army, or TNLA, and the Arakan Army, both members of the Three Brotherhood Alliance, separately accused the army of continuing attacks.

The shadow National Unity Government on Saturday accused the military of carrying out 63 airstrikes and artillery attacks since the earthquake, resulting in the deaths of 68 civilians, including one child and 15 women.

However, military spokesperson Zaw Min Tun said in an audio message to journalists on Saturday that the groups in the Three Brotherhood Alliance and the Kachin Independence Army, as well as the Karen National Union in southeastern Myanmar and pro-democracy forces in the central Magway region and other groups violated the ceasefires by attacking the army.

“We are carrying out relief and assistance efforts for the people affected by the earthquake. I am saying this to make everyone aware of the ceasefire violations at a time like this,” Zaw Min Tun said.

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Associated Press writer Edith Lederer at the United Nations contributed to this report.

People clean debris from damaged buildings in the aftermath of an earthquake on March 28, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Monday, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo)

People clean debris from damaged buildings in the aftermath of an earthquake on March 28, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Monday, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo)

People clean debris from damaged buildings in the aftermath of an earthquake on March 28, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Monday, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo)

A local woman pushing her bicycle walks past a damaged building in the aftermath of an earthquake on March 28, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Monday, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo)

People clean debris from damaged buildings in the aftermath of an earthquake on March 28, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Monday, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo)

A man cleans debris from damaged buildings in the aftermath of an earthquake on March 28, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Monday, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo)

People clean debris from damaged buildings in the aftermath of an earthquake on March 28, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Monday, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo)

People clean debris from damaged buildings in the aftermath of an earthquake on March 28, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Monday, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo)

People clean debris from damaged buildings in the aftermath of an earthquake on March 28, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Monday, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo)

People clean debris from damaged buildings in the aftermath of an earthquake on March 28, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Monday, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo)

A local man rides a bicycle past a damaged building in the aftermath of an earthquake on March 28, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Monday, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo)

People clean debris from damaged buildings in the aftermath of an earthquake on March 28, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Monday, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo)

People clean debris from damaged buildings in the aftermath of an earthquake on March 28, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Monday, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo)