Try as they might, there was nothing Twins pitchers could do on Wednesday night to stymie Yankees star Aaron Judge.

The superstar was a one-man wrecking crew, blasting a home run to Target Field’s third deck in left field, smacking three doubles and collecting a walk in the Yankees’ 4-0 win over the Twins.

His first-inning home run off Pablo López, who gave up a season-high 10 hits but minimized the damage for the most part, traveled 467 feet. It was the 10th-longest home run hit at Target Field in the Statcast era.

Two innings later, Judge led off the third with a double to center and came around to score on a Giancarlo Stanton base knock.

And in the seventh, Judge drove in Juan Soto with a double that center fielder Willi Castro broke in for initially before it flew over his head.

It was a second consecutive tough day in the outfield for Castro, who was directly responsible for the Yankees’ second run of the game.

With the bases loaded in the second inning, Anthony Volpe hit a routine fly ball toward Castro, who caught it and then started trotting toward the dugout.

Problem was, Castro had lost track of how many outs there were in the inning. That was the second out, and Castro’s mistake allowed Gleyber Torres to score easily from third without a throw home.

Castro, clearly frustrated with himself, caught the third out of the inning, too, and then chucked the ball up to an advertisement at the top of the stands in anger.

While his mental mistake was costly, it was hardly the only issue for the Twins on a night where they finished with just four hits, the same number as Judge.

They loaded the bases in the second inning on an error and two walks but were unable to capitalize on their best opportunity against Yankees starter Marcus Stroman.

An inning later, Edouard Julien led off with a double, but they were unable to advance him home. It looked as if they might have a situation with runners on the corners and just one out when Ryan Jeffers looked as if he beat out an infield hit, but he was ruled out upon replay review.

Before the results of the review was revealed, Twins manager Rocco Baldelli emerged from the dugout and had an animated discussion with the umpires.

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