

I mean, that's really who he is if he hits 62, and I think that's what needs to happen. " should be revered for being the actual single-season home run champ. I go back to the context of the season, and the more I look at it and dive into it, it's got to be an all-time great season." "I got to believe it's right there with some of the best very short list of all-time seasons. "I think it puts it a notch above," Boone said last week. Judge's 2022 tear has been done with zero evidence of performance-enhancing drugs used by the Yankees slugger, which manager Aaron Boone believes puts the All-Star outfielder's numbers beyond those recorded by the others. You can tell that he's back, and he's ready to go now." I think the party last night, the celebration, loosened him up. "I don't think it's going to take very long," he said. confirmed in a postgame news conference that he will travel back to Yankee Stadium this week as Judge swings for No. He wants to keep it low key, but boy, does he deserve it."

"We're all so proud of him, and know how hard he works. It was just a really good moment of togetherness," Yankees starter Gerrit Cole said, describing the celebration. "It felt like we were the only ones there. And now, the only players in MLB history with more home runs in a season are Barry Bonds (73), Mark McGwire (70, 65) and Sammy Sosa (66, 64, 63) - all of whom accomplished theirs during the steroid era (1998 to 2001). and Judge's mother, Patty, sitting front row on top of the Yankees dugout.
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Judge finally got there in the series finale, with Roger Maris Jr. Of the previous seven instances in which a player hit 61 home runs, four had reached that mark the next game after hitting 60 and none went more than three games to reach the milestone. The seven-game homerless drought was a rare case for the select few who've reached such home run heights. "Getting a chance to tie Roger Maris," Judge said, "you dream about that kind of stuff, it's unreal." But once it got over the fence, he said he felt "relief" knowing the Yankees were in the lead as a result.

Judge said when he hit the ball, he wasn't sure if it would be a homer or an out. Home plate umpire Brian O'Nora, after the game, congratulated Judge just outside the Yankees dugout, and handed him the official lineup card from the night. "That's one thing so special about the Yankees organization, is all the guys that came before us and kind of paved the way and played the game the right way, did things the right way, did a lot of great things in this game and getting a chance to be mentioned with those guys now is, I can't even describe it, it's an incredible honor that's for sure." "It's an incredible honor, getting a chance to be associated with one of the Yankee greats, one of baseball's greats, words can't describe it," Judge said. When he finished rounding the bases, his thrilled teammates had left the dugout to greet him. He went 1-for-3 with a single in the series opener Monday and walked four times in Tuesday's division clincher, before ultimately launching the historic shot Wednesday in the Yankees' 8-3 victory. He and the Yankees then headed to Toronto looking to make history at Rogers Centre. Judge - who walked in his first at-bat, popped out in his second and grounded out in his third - had gone seven games without a home run since managing a solo shot during New York's 6-0 homestand. A day after the Yankees clinched the American League East title, Judge, batting leadoff as the designated hitter, took Toronto's Tim Mayza deep in the seventh inning with a runner on base. 1, the final game of the 1961 season, to hit his 61st, which broke Babe Ruth's single-season mark of 60 home runs set in 1927. TORONTO - New York Yankees star Aaron Judge hit his 61st home run of the season Wednesday night against the Toronto Blue Jays, tying Roger Maris' American League record. New York Yankees star Aaron Judge hits 61st home run of season, tying Roger Maris' mark
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