Aaron Judge recently went a whole five games without hitting a home run.
If you could call that a cold streak, OK fine. But then he went and hit another two home runs on Tuesday night to bring his season-long total to a whopping 57.
It’s safe to say that with 20 New York Yankees games to go, Judge has his sights on some big numbers that will go down in the record books as one unreal season. The greatest? Not quite, but still an all-timer of a year.
So let’s look at some records and such that he could break or approach in those final 20 games:
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He could break Roger Maris' Yankees record for most home runs in a season
That’s the one a lot of New York fans are paying attention to. With five more dingers, he’ll pass Maris, who hit that many in 1961.
AARON JUDGE DOES IT AGAIN 🤯
57 HOME RUNSpic.twitter.com/IzRC1ydGJV
— Action Network (@ActionNetworkHQ) September 14, 2022
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He needs, uh, 68 RBI to tie Hack Wilson for most in a single season
I know, not happening. But the fact is: He has 123 RBI. If he ends up with, say, 141, he’ll join a bunch of players in the top 100 all time who knocked in that many runs.
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He needs to hit a bunch until the end of the season to win the AL Triple Crown
To be fair: He’s hitting .310, good for fourth in the American League (he’s behind Jose Abreau, Xander Bogaerts and Luis Arraez, the latter of whom leads the AL with a .319 average).
Judge pretty much has the RBI crown and HR crown locked up.
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He needs 17 home runs to have the greatest HR season in MLB history
Doubt this one, but let’s talk about this for a sec: If he hits, say, 65, he’ll tie Mark McGwire for fourth-most in a season. How cool is that?
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Check this one out
NY #Yankees CF Aaron Judge, with two homers tonight, now leads #MLB with 57 home runs_20 more than #Phillies OF Kyle Schwarber (37).
Only one player in baseball history has ever won the MLB home-run title by 20 or more home runs in a single season.
His name is Babe Ruth.— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) September 14, 2022
WOW.
