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Two of baseball's biggest stars are closing in on major home run marks

The Yankees' Aaron Judge and the Cardinals' Albert Pujols are each closing in on a major home run milestone, bringing life to every at-bat as their teams near the end of the regular season.

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Yankees' Judge blasts 58th, 59th homers of MLB season

Chicago (AFP) - New York Yankees star centerfielder Aaron Judge homered twice on Sunday to move within two home runs of tying Roger Maris's American League single-season record of 61.

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Yankees' Judge blasts 58th homer of MLB season

Chicago (AFP) - New York Yankees star centerfielder Aaron Judge smashed his 58th home run of the season on Sunday, moving closer to an iconic Major League Baseball record.

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Brandon Woodruff shuts down Aaron Judge, Yankees as Brewers get 4-1 win

MILWAUKEE — The Yankees are expecting reinforcements soon, but with 17 games left in the regular season the question is do they have enough time to be a playoff contender. Saturday night, they didn’t look like it as Willy Adames and the Brewers beat them again, this one a 4-1…

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The MLB Playoff Race Is Getting Wild With Three Weeks to Go

We are three weeks away from the start of the playoffs, with the first game of all four wild-card series scheduled back-to-back-to-back. You can be sure that MLB will market the event as baseball’s version of the first day of March Madness. (Fall Frenzy, anyone?) But regardless of how well…

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Yankees' Judge homers twice, closing in on 61

New York (AFP) - New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge homered twice in a 7-6 victory over the Red Sox in Boston on Tuesday to edge closer to the American League record of 61 in a season.

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Aaron Judge inching closer to breaking Maris’ record, hits home runs 56 and 57 in 7-6 win against Red Sox

Opposing teams still choose to pitch to Aaron Judge and he keeps hitting bombs.

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Aaron Judge Inches Closer to History With Homers 56, 57

The MVP favorite’s pursuit of the American League home run record got a big boost on Tuesday.

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Rays deliver without Drew Rasmussen, beat Red Sox

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Rays were expecting that Drew Rasmussen, the reigning American League pitcher of the month, was due to deliver another strong start Tuesday against the Red Sox.

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Matt Calkins: Meetings? A melee? Pitching? Answers vary on how hot Mariners made a midseason turnaround.

A journalism titan named Larry Stone tweeted Sunday that the Mariners were 47-19 since dropping 10 games below .500 after a mid-June series against the Angels. That was the same pace at which the Mariners won in 2001, when they tied the MLB record with 116 victories.

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Bo Bichette hits 3 homers as Blue Jays beat Orioles, 8-4, to sweep doubleheader, extend lead in wild-card standings

BALTIMORE — The Orioles’ race to the postseason likely runs through the Toronto Blue Jays. In that sense, Monday’s doubleheader against their American League East foe represented tripping out of the gate.

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Yankees' Judge belts 54th home run of year

New York (AFP) - New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge continued his march toward Roger Maris's American League record of 61 home runs in a season on Monday, pounding his 54th in a 5-2 win over the Minnesota Twins.

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MLB’s Art Shires: hitter, peacock, boaster, boxer and accused killer

The Texan was a hothead who beat up his own manager, pursued an off-season fighting career and was implicated in the deaths of two people

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Dylan Cease loses no-hit bid with two outs in 9th, settling for one-hit shutout in 13-0 White Sox win

CHICAGO — Dylan Cease has been nearly unhittable at times this season while putting himself in contention for the American League Cy Young Award.

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Rays beat Yankees, cut AL East lead to 5 games

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Rays did what they could Friday afternoon to tamp down expectations and defuse the hype over the weekend series with the struggling Yankees. Almost to a man, they insisted they were focused only on winning Friday’s game and not the rapidly shrinking margin between them…

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Adley Rutschman’s pinch-hit walk helps Orioles beat A’s, 5-2, in Gunnar Henderson’s home debut

BALTIMORE — Before opening a series with the worst team in the American League, Orioles manager Brandon Hyde was faced with a series of questions about his lineup. It featured neither Cedric Mullins nor Adley Rutschman, typically the top two hitters in his starting nine, partly for rest and partly…

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Mariners shut out Tigers for the sweep, move to 15 games above .500

DETROIT — This wasn’t like the uneven and frustrating three-game series in Texas and Oakland on the previous road trip, where they managed to win just one game in each.

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What History Tells Us About Aaron Judge’s Pursuit of 61 Home Runs

Let’s look at how his season compares to the other players who were on similar homer paces entering September.

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Jose Siri steps up, Shawn Armstrong steps in as Rays beat Marlins

MIAMI — Jose Siri had himself quite a night in Tuesday’s 7-2 win over the Marlins.

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SI:AM | LeBron’s Family Business

He tells SI that he hopes to play with his son Bronny, and maybe even Bryce.

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Dean Kremer continues Orioles’ pitching dominance in 3-1 series-clinching win over AL-leading Astros

HOUSTON — Dean Kremer has had his struggles the third time through the order this season, with the splits likely factoring into why Orioles manager Brandon Hyde aggressively went to his bullpen in the right-hander’s previous start Sunday at the Little League Classic. But on Saturday night at Minute Maid…

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Aaron Judge hits homer No. 49, Gerrit Cole strikes out 11 as Yankees surge continues with 3-2 win over A’s

OAKLAND, Calif. — Aaron Judge is back on track. The New York Yankees slugger, who snapped a nine-game homer drought earlier this week, hit his third home run in the last four games Friday night as the Bombers beat the A’s 3-2 at the Coliseum.

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Julio Rodríguez Is the Future of Seattle Sports

The J-Rod Show is staying in Seattle! This afternoon, it was reported that Julio Rodríguez and the Mariners were nearing a massive extension, with a ton of specific details that affect the overall terms of the deal. MLB.com’s Jesse Sanchez was first to report the extension was happening, ...

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Julio Rodriguez, Mariners finalizing massive, long-term contract

SEATTLE — Since the day he signed as a 16-year-old out of the Dominican Republic, the Mariners have known they have something special in Julio Rodriguez.

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Twins drop fifth in a row after 5-3 loss to Astros

HOUSTON — Framber Valdez leads the American League in innings pitched, and has delivered a quality start in a team-record 21 consecutive outings.

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