“Judgey’s special”: Aaron Judge knits his name besides mythical Babe Ruth in Yankee History Book

“Judgey’s special”: Aaron Judge knits his name besides mythical Babe Ruth in Yankee History Book

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Aaron Judge joined Babe Ruth (1928) as the only New York Yankees with six multi-home run games in the first 70 games of a season. On Wednesday night in a 5-4 win against the Tampa Bay Rays (box score) Aaron Judge dinged 2 home runs to prove that he could be looking in for another history book which has the highest number of hits in a single season.

Aaron Judge entered the night as the Home Run leader in the Major League with 25 home runs, putting him four up on second-place Mike Trout and five ahead of Pete Alonso, the National League’s leading homer.

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He went into the plate with clarity as he launched No. 26 in the fourth inning against Tampa Bay Rays starter Shane Baz and then put No. 27 on the board in the seventh versus Tampa Bay Rays reliever Colin Poche. It was the 22nd multi-home run game of Aaron Judge’s career and marked the third straight time that he has dinged twice in his first game after a day off.

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The value of rest manifested itself, but the Yankees aren’t about to start giving the American League MVP front-runner any extra days off.

“I don’t get it,” Aaron Judge laughed and said, “I think the biggest thing is keeping the body fresh. When I’m able to swing at pitches in the zone, I feel like I can do some damage to them. I’ve got no answers for you on the two after an off day.”

Multi-homer games in New York Yankees’ history:

  1. Babe Ruth           68
  2. Mickey Mantle    46
  3. Lou Gehrig          43
  4. Joe DiMaggio      35
  5. Alex Rodriguez    29
  6. Aaron Judge        22
  7. Jason Giambi       22
  8. Mark Teixeira       21

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Judge led off the seventh by turning on hanging inside curveball from Colin Poche to draw the Yankees to within 4-3. The moon shot cleared the in-play catwalk atop Tropicana Field, it left awestruck teammates’ mouths hanging open in the dugout.

Aaron Boone, The New York Yankee manager said, “I’m still figuring out what happened, I was expecting it to land in the catwalk and then I lost it. It was good to see him clip another one.”

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