Aaron Judge hit his major league-leading 44th home run and Gerrit Cole struck out eight in six innings as the New York Yankees beat the Detroit Tigers 3-0. Oswald Peraza also went deep in his first big league game this season for the Yankees, who improved to 4-0 against Detroit. New York won its third straight and took a one-game lead in the AL East over Baltimore. One game after hitting his 300th career home run, becoming by far the fastest player to reach the milestone, Judge connected for No. 301 in the eighth, a 431-foot drive that gave the Yankees a 3-0 cushion. Cole allowed four hits before three relievers finished for New York, with Clay Holmes pitching the ninth to earn his 26th save.