Aaron Judge

Aaron Judge opened Sunday's game against the Tampa Bay Rays with a bang. The New York Yankees star homered off Shawn Ar.

New York isn't in much jeopardy of missing the playoffs, but its [championship credentials](https://www.fangraphs.com/standings/playoff-odds) have taken a hit in recent months. His gamble is going to pay off in a big way because he has only increased his earning power on the field this season. The four-time All-Star is also nine dingers away from setting a franchise record.

New York Yankees' outfielder Aaron Judge led off Sunday's game against the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field with a home run off Rays' pitcher Shawn ...

In order for Judge to tie Bonds' record, he would need to hit 20 home runs over his final 28 games. Three years later, Barry Bonds surpassed both McGwire and Sosa, setting a new single-season home run record of 73 in 2001. If he plays in all of the Yankees' 28 remaining regular season games and keeps pace, he'll close the season with 64 home runs, which would be a new American League record, passing a record of 61 previously set by another Yankees outfielder — Roger Maris — in the summer of 1961.

Yankees slugger Aaron Judge is at it again, setting a new career high in home runs after belting his 53rd of the season against the Tampa Bay Rays on ...

[AARON JUDGE CLOSES GAP WITH AL SINGLE-SEASON HOME RUN RECORD WITH 51ST DINGER](https://www.foxnews.com/sports/aaron-judge-closes-gap-al-single-season-home-run-record-51st-dinger) The Yankees, who once held a 15.5-game lead on Tampa Bay, saw it to diminish to four games. Frankly, it's been only Judge pulling his weight at the plate. It's the famous 61 homers in '61 that Judge is trying to hunt down in this final month of the regular season. However, Judge has been focused on winning games, something The ball went an estimated 450 feet down the left field line.

The Yankees and Aaron Judge followed the script, losing pitifully while Judge did what he could to try and carry the team.

The Cards expanded the lead to 6-0 by the end of the eighth, but below it all in the ninth. As has been said before in this space, even in Bonds’ worst games of 2001, he still typically found his way onto the base paths a couple times and found a way to impact the game offensively. By WPA this was Maris’ 10th-worst game of the year. Judge has 52 homers in 133 games, a genuinely magical performance that is being overshadowed by the putrid performance of the players around him. Aaron Judge did what he could, smashing a home run in the ninth to try and bring his team back from the brink: We’re taking a daily look at where Aaron Judge’s monster season tracks compared to some of the other historic single-season home run leaders in anticipation of Judge potentially joining their ranks.

Aaron Judge led off Sunday's game against the Rays with a mammoth homer into the upper deck in left field at Tropicana Field, his 53rd home run of the ...

The outfielder continues to be the only bright spot in a Yankee lineup that has completely fallen apart. [ 2-1 win over the Rays](https://nypost.com/2022/09/04/yankees-escape-sweep-by-rays-thanks-to-aaron-judges-offense/) with a mammoth homer into the upper deck in left field at Tropicana Field, his 53rd home run of the season, leaving him eight short of Maris’ record of 61 set in 1961. — Aaron Judge is doing everything he can to stop the Yankees’ slide — and he’s getting closer to Roger Maris’ home run record by the day.

On Sunday, Judge scored both Yankee runs, and Yankee hitters not named Judge went just 3 for 30. On the upside, deadline addition Frankie Montas finally turned ...

The Yankees eked out a much-needed win in the series finale by a score of [2-1](https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/gametracker/boxscore/MLB_20220904_NYY@TB/). These two teams will meet again for a key three-game series in the Bronx that starts Friday. Montas entered Sunday with a 7.01 ERA through his first five starts with the Yankees. On the upside, deadline addition Frankie Montas finally turned in a strong start, as he twirled five scoreless innings with only one hit allowed and seven strikeouts against zero walks. Coming into Sunday's series finale, the Yankees had managed a total of just three runs over their previous three games, and now that tally is just five runs in four games. [New York Yankees](https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/teams/NYY/new-york-yankees/)' slugger [Aaron Judge](/mlb/players/2071264/aaron-judge/) on Sunday hit his second home run in as many days against the [Tampa Bay Rays](https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/teams/TB/tampa-bay-rays/), and in doing so upped his total for the season to a career-best 53 homers.

Not only is Aaron Judge a face of the MLB, he'll be a free agent after the season. Speculation swirls over who he'll play for in 2023, and the Giants make ...

After all, back in 2001, Judge was aboard the Bonds bandwagon to 73 home runs. Not that it’s necessarily new for the New York Yankees’ celebrated outfielder. [Barry Bonds](https://www.sfchronicle.com/barry-bonds/) 21 years earlier, Aaron Judge is on course for home run history.

Can Judge catch Ruth Maris, Sosa, McGwire or Bonds? We're following along with his home run chase.

New York went 6-3 in games where Judge homered, including a walk-off win over the Toronto Blue Jays on May 10 and multi-homer games against the Royals and Orioles. Here’s a closer look at each of Judge’s July blasts (distance numbers via [Baseball Savant](https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/)): The solo shot was part of a 2-for-4 game for Judge in a 7-2 win. Once on base, he recorded his 11th steal of the season (on A fifth-inning blast from Judge would have been a home run in nearly every other part of Busch Stadium, but instead knocked off the center-field wall to score one of his four RBI on the day. Aaron Judge failed to tally a hit, let alone increase his home run total, in Saturday night’s game against the Red Sox. [its 11th loss in 13 games](https://theathletic.com/3515246/2022/08/17/yankees-slump-gleyber-torres-josh-donaldson/). The slugger struck out swinging in his first at-bat of their latest meeting but floated a homer deep into right field to give the Yankees a 2-0 lead in the first matchup of a two-game series. Judge went 1-for-4 with a single, driving in his 106th run of the season. A pair of runs in the first and third innings was all Oakland needed to split the series against the Yankees. [Yankees](https://theathletic.com/mlb/team/yankees/) star’s pace rivals that of Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Roger Maris and Babe Ruth. Aaron Judge inches closer to Roger Maris’ American League record for home runs.

As the Yankees have struggled over the last two months, Judge has remained impervious to the maladies that have plagued the lineup.

[Astros](https://theathletic.com/mlb/team/astros/) second baseman [Jose Altuve](https://theathletic.com/mlb/player/jose-altuve-XBsBnmYpBnTfLi4H/)). Throughout the year, Judge has consistently declined to engage with questions about his own success versus that of the team. Voters will weigh Judge’s contribution to a contending Yankees team versus Ohtani’s impossible-to-replicate production for the Angels in another losing season. As the Yankees have struggled over the last two months and the offense has all but evaporated over the last few weeks, Judge has remained impervious to the mechanical and mental maladies that have plagued a significant portion of the lineup. Judge’s performance and durability this season have offered confirmation, if it was needed, that he is a superstar-level player in his prime. Judge was also responsible for the Yankees’ sole run (another home run) in their loss Saturday.

Judge set a career high for homers, topping the 52 he hit as a rookie in 2017. He also doubled, singled, and scored both New York runs.

Wetteland, who pleaded not guilty, testified in his own defense and said the accuser’s account of sexual abuse was a lie. In 1990, the Texas at Chicago White Sox game never got started and was called after a wait of 7:23. Cavan Biggio hit his fifth home of the season and second in five days for the Blue Jays. Wetteland’s attorneys said the accuser was manipulated to levy false accusations. (1-5) with two outs to push Toronto in front and the bullpen did the rest. The official delay was 4 hours, 33 minutes and the teams consulted with Major League Baseball throughout the break. In 2013, the Kansas City at St. He struck out seven and retired the last 11 batters he faced. In those six games, Gallen is 5-0 with a 0.58 WHIP. David Peralta led off with his second double of the game and scored on a one-out single by pinch-hitter Francisco Mejia. Louis has won four in a row, 18 of their last 20 home games and is a season-best 24 games over .500 at 79-55. It was the Cardinals’ eighth series sweep of the season.

The Yankees were in desperate need of a win. With the AL East lead down to four games, a loss would mean the Yankees beginning the week just a series' worth ...

He would get the first out on a fly ball that kept the runners in place, but the Yankees would then go back to the bullpen and bring in Jonathan Loáisiga. The Yankees couldn’t add any further insurance in the top of the ninth, and then turned it over to Clay Holmes for the bottom of the inning. Trivino allowed a single to Yandy Díaz to start the inning, but worked around it to get that third out. Desperate for some sort of offensive spark, the Yankees got off to the perfect start courtesy of — who else — Aaron Judge. Aaron Judge’s leadoff home run allowed the Yankees to lead wire-to-wire as they pulled out a 2-1 triumph over the Rays. It wasn’t the prettiest, and you certainly can’t say that the Yankees figured things out in it, but it’s a win nonetheless.

The New York Yankees beat the the Tampa Bay Rays, 2-1, at Tropicana Field on Sunday afternoon. Aaron Judge scored both runs.

Donaldson was in a 3-0 count leading off the second inning when Armstrong missed up and in for Ball 4. Oswaldo Cabrera’s sacrifice fly to left with runners on the corners and no outs in the seventh put the Yankees ahead, 2-0. The Yankees loaded the bases in the fifth inning for Giancarlo Stanton and, naturally, came up empty. The Yankees went up first with Judge’s leadoff solo shot, a 450-foot blast to left field. Montas had posted a 7.01 ERA over his first five starts after the Yankees traded for him at the deadline. Frankie Montas turned in his best start since the Yankees traded for him.