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- How Aaron Judge's four-walk game vs. Blue Jays shows he isn't 'pressing' in pursuit of HR record
- Aaron Judge interview had Yankees shook: Thought ‘we were going to lose him’
- Aaron Judge 62nd home run: Fan jumps over railing in failed attempt to catch ball worth millions
- Aaron Judge home runs tracker: Yankees star beats Roger Maris with his 62nd home run of season
- Aaron Judge home run tracker: How far is Yankees' rookie letting it fly?
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Judge crushed this two-run blast off Francisco Liriano in the top of the sixth at Rogers Centre for his 18th homer of the season. According to ESPN's Stats & Info, Judge's home run was calculated at 448 feet, his fourth-longest of the season and his ninth this season of 425-plus feet, most in the majors in 2017. After hitting his 62nd home run Tuesday night, Judge got one more at-bat in the second, striking out. Once Judge took right field for the bottom of the inning, Yankees manager Aaron Boone removed Judge from the game, getting him an ovation as he left the field — and some extra rest, as he had made his 55th consecutive start without a day off. Judge hit his first grand slam, a line-drive blast to right field at Andrew Triggs' expense to give the Yankees the lead in the bottom of the third, fueling a 9-5 romp over the Athletics. The blast brought Judge back into a tie with Mike Trout for the major league lead in home runs.
How Aaron Judge's four-walk game vs. Blue Jays shows he isn't 'pressing' in pursuit of HR record
That mindset must affect the way a pitcher approaches an at-bat. Judge went into a full count in all five of his plate appearances, the first of which culminated in a lineout to Matt Chapman that came off the bat at 96.8 mph. Judge, at 6-7, 282 pounds, isn't just hitting long balls. Like King Kong swatting planes over the Empire State Building, he's smacking towering blasts worthy of his massive frame, at Yankee Stadium and well beyond. The first of these, a mere 332-footer, was very un-Judge-ian. It might not have made it out in many other ballparks, and it remains the shortest homer of the season for Judge.
Judge's first homer of the season was a quiet sign of the big hits to come. His solo shot off Mychal Givens in the eighth inning tied the score between Baltimore and New York and set up a 7-3 Yankees win. Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees hitting his 62nd home run of the season against the Texas Rangers in Arlington. Judge has now set the American League record for home runs in a single season.
Aaron Judge interview had Yankees shook: Thought ‘we were going to lose him’
But little did everyone know it was the catalyst of the Yankees' best comeback win of the season - they scored five runs in the bottom of the ninth and won on a walk-off grand slam by Giancarlo Stanton to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 9-8. Judge's blast made him the sixth person in MLB history to hit 60 in a season, and it's just the ninth occurrence all time. He joined Roger Maris and Babe Ruth as the only Yankees to accomplish the feat. It's been seven games since Aaron Judge hit his 60th homer against the Pittsburgh Pirates, but in the baseball world it's felt like an eternity. Bonds is one of three players who have hit more home runs than Judge in a single season, along with Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa —all three have tested positive for PEDs and McGwire is the only one of the three who has admitted to knowingly using them. The all-time record is Barry Bonds with 73 home runs in 2001.
Judge was diplomatic in talking about that intentional walk after the game, saying "I trust every single guy in our lineup and every single guy on our bench ... I'll show up tomorrow and get it done," per the YES Network. Judge has been intentionally walked once in this time-frame, but it made sense from a strategy perspective. The Blue Jays walked Judge to load up the bases with two outs and face Anthony Rizzo. Judge's walk rate since his last home run is now 39 percent , a far cry from his 16 percent rate this season. So Judge's slugging stats are down (we're talking about a home run drought, after all).
Aaron Judge 62nd home run: Fan jumps over railing in failed attempt to catch ball worth millions
The 374-foot shot off Sean Manaea at Oakland Coliseum was Judge's third shortest of the season. What it lacked in distance more than made up for it in importance, as the three-run shot in the third inning brought the Bronx Bombers to within one of the A's. The Yankees are playing four games in three days in Texas and have already clinched the AL East title and a Wild Card Series bye. Manager Aaron Boone had hinted at giving Judge a day off at some point to rest him before the postseason, but his slugger was out there for both sides of the doubleheader Tuesday anyway. There is some wonderful symmetry in Judge's pursuit of Maris' AL home run record.
Maris, who passed away in 1985, hit 61 homers 61 years ago in 1961. Also, Judge hit his 203rd career home run on Aug. 10, the same number of homers Maris hit with the Yankees. In addition to home runs Judge also leads the league in walks, runs scored, RBI, total bases, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, OPS, OPS+, and both the FanGraphs and Baseball Reference versions of WAR. The race for the home run title isn't much of a race at all. The Yankees star crushed his 62nd home run of the season Tuesday, beating Roger Maris for the American League single-season record.
Aaron Judge hits home run #62 and makes baseball history The New York Yankees' star outfielder has broken the 61-year-old record set by fellow Yankee Roger Maris back in 1961. Smiting another Angel, Judge blasted his 25th homer of the season -- and 20th career in Yankee Stadium -- against veteran Jesse Chavez. Chavez had already walked Judge in the first inning, but seeing him again in the bottom of the second, saw his two-out, full-count cutter get ripped to center for a 422-foot three-run homer to expand the Yankees' early lead to 5-1. But as with his previous homer, Judge's blast would come in a game the Yankees would ultimately lose. The Yankees then came pouring out of the dugout, jumping in jubilation after Judge hit his 62nd home run of the season, breaking Roger Maris’ 61-year-old franchise and American League record. In 2001, Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants, also in the NL, passed them both when he hit 73 homers.
The fan who caught it received a signed bat, while his friends each got a signed ball. No one had hit 60 home runs in a season in 21 years until Aaron Judge did so on Tuesday night. But a batter doesn't pick up this walk rate without pitchers pitching himverycautiously. The Blue Jays' Kevin Gausman explicitly said he doesn't "want to be the answer to a trivia question," per Mitch Bannon.
Judge's homers would combine to land in New Jersey, more than spanning tre length of the George Washington Bridge on its way from Yankee Stadium. That’s how much Judge’s 62nd home run ball could sell at auction, according to Goldin Auctions executive chairman Ken Goldin. The second, which went 391 feet, made up for that relative blooper, and it brought in three runs in an eventual 11-5 win. This is right around when heads started turning.
His 496-foot blast to left field was the longest home run hit by anybody since ESPN started recording homer distances in 2009, and it came in his first career four-hit game. He also became the first Yankee to hit 20 homers before the All-Star Break in his age-25 season since Roger Maris did it in 1960. Yankees ticket prices have soared over the past two weeks as fans tried to watch Judge hit his record-breaking home run, jumping to $252 late last month for the last seven home games of the year, according to data from sales platform TicketiQ. Outfield tickets to Yankees-Rangers games this week in Arlington, Texas, ranged from $16 to a whopping $941 for seats in left field, where right-handed batters like Aaron Judge pull home runs, TicketiQ editorial director Greg Cohen told Forbes. Vivid Seats lists tickets to Wednesday’s game up to $723, while StubHub lists tickets up to $4,860.
But the connotation behind pressing is that he's expanding his zone to hit this home run. Aaron Judge had three walk-off home runs this season, most recently on July 28 against the Royals. He passed former Yankee Roger Maris for the AL single-season record, with 61 in 1961.
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