Aaron Judge

A fan nearly caught the ball that tied Roger Maris' single-season HR record, but it landed in the home bullpen.

[Aaron Judge](/mlb/players/2071264/aaron-judge/) [belted his 61st home run of the season](https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/aaron-judge-hits-61st-home-run-of-season-to-match-roger-maris-al-record-for-most-hrs-in-single-season/live/) Wednesday against the [Blue Jays](https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/teams/TOR/toronto-blue-jays/), tying Roger Maris' American League and [Yankees](https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/teams/NYY/new-york-yankees/) single-season records. On Tuesday, his Yankees clinched the AL East with a 5-2 win over the Blue Jays. 61 out the way, Judge needs only one more over his team's final seven games to take sole control of the Yankees and AL single-season records. [Tim Mayza](/mlb/players/2228208/tim-mayza/) deep in the seventh inning for dinger No. "Getting that type of support and a classy move from him, who's one of the best in the game, definitely means a lot. Buschmann and the Jays bullpen, specifically closer Jordan Romano, then made sure the ball got to Yankees personnel.

While watching Aaron Judge chase the elusive 61st home run for the past week, you couldn't help but feel for both his mother and Roger Maris Jr. After ...

As for the eventual No. 61 ball actually end up at the end of the night? 61 over the left field wall at the Rogers Centre in the top of the seventh.

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Aaron Judge tied Roger Maris' American League record of 61 home runs in a season with a tiebreaking, two-run drive in the seventh inning that lifted the New ...

“Then it was just a matter of enjoying him run the bases and giving his mom a big old hug and just enjoying the moment.” Toronto (87-69) held on to the top spot in the wild card race despite its second straight loss. He has a chance to become the first AL Triple Crown winner since Detroit’s Miguel Cabrera in 2012. Judge had gone seven games without a home run — his longest drought this season was nine in mid-August. The 30-year-old slugger drove a 94.5 mph belt-high sinker with a full-count from Mayza (8-1) over the left-field fence at Rogers Centre. He pumped an arm just before reaching first and exchanged a slap with coach Travis Chapman.

The New York Yankees star, who hit his 61st home run of the season, tying him with Roger Maris for most home runs hit in a season in American League history ...

He has a chance to win the Triple Crown, leading the American League in home runs, RBIs and batting average. The last Yankee to win the Triple Crown was Mickey Mantle in 1956. Maris also hit 61 for the Yankees in 1961. After Judge’s shot, his mother and Maris shared a hug. “She’s been with me through it all, that’s for sure. 61 and gave the ball to his No.

Pareciera que cada vez que el béisbol de las Grandes Ligas tiene momentos oscuros, una luz aparece para enamorar de vuelta a todos y recordarnos que este es ...

Judge será agente libre en la temporada muerta a no ser que los Yankees acuerden un contrato con el gigante de 6 pies 7 pulgadas. Sea o no sea el récord general, lo que está haciendo Aaron Judge es merecedor de una ovación, una reverencia y de todo el respeto del mundo del beisbol. Son varios los que consideran que tanto el primer récord de Mark McGwire con 70 y luego el de Bonds con 73, deberían ir acompañados de un asterisco, pues sus nombres han estado ligados al uso de sustancias prohibidas.

Ocurrió. Tenía que pasar. Todo Estados Unidos estaba esperando el momento. El béisbol, su deporte rey, tenía ya preparado el trono para su nuevo monarca, ...

Ni a los Mets ni a los Dodgers les importaría pagar la penalización, el llamado ‘impuesto de salario’, que impone la Liga a aquellos clubs que pagan más de lo debido, de lo estipulado, a sus jugadores. Judge, que empezó con el salario base en NY, está ganando, en estos momentos, siendo el mejor bateador de la historia del béisbol USA, 19 millones de dólares por temporada. El estadio estaba repleto de ‘certificadores’ de la MLB, la organización de la Liga, que debían certificar, de inmediato, que ésa era la bola del ‘home rune’ nº 61 de Judge y Buschmann, dicen, tuvo que regatear a un montón de falsos ‘certificadores’ y, al final, se la entregó a Zach Britton, uno de los lanzadores de los Yankees, al que sí conocía. El 61 ‘home rune’ de Judge, con el partido empatado 3-3 en la séptima entrada, sirvió para que los Yankees se pusiesen por delante y empezasen a ganar el partido. Y Britton la certificó: “Las familias Judge y Maris han estado volando por todo el país para vivir este momento y merecen que tengamos con nosotros esta bola”. ¿Por qué?, porque esa bola, de llegar a las manos de un aficionado, no solo era histórica sino que podía llegar a venderse, en subasta, por 250.000 dólares. Ultimamente ha trabajado muy duro para ser eficaz en los lanzamientos que más fallaba, bola dura arriba y pegada a su pecho y bola abajo y pegada a su rodilla. El béisbol, su deporte rey, tenía ya preparado el trono para su nuevo monarca, que no es otro que un muchacho enorme, tremendo, corpulento, grande, de 2.01 metros y 127 kilos de peso, que juega de jardinero central y que tiene un poderoso brazo derecho, pero cuya mayor virtud, aquella que le ha convertido ya en un mito, en un nuevo icono del deporte de la pelota, es que batea como nadie en la historia. Y al ‘Juez’ le quedan aún siete partidos para conseguir esa gesta que, seguro, consigue, hasta el final de la temporada regular una vez clasificados ya los Yankees para los ‘play off’. Judge, que empezó en el béisbol procedente de California, que empezó muy tarde, que entró en las Grandes Ligas en el 2017 y ya demostró su tremendo poderío al bate, se pasó tres años con lesiones y, al final, ha podido triunfar en las últimas temporadas. No deja de ser curioso que los tres son jugadores de los Yankees. “Judge”, explica Clemson Smith Muñiz, uno de los comentaristas norteamericanos a El Periódico, “está obsesionado con el estudio de su bateo y también, también, con los lanzamientos de sus rivales.

Yankee leads in damn near every offensive stat in an era of pitching.

Judge, on the other hand, had to play in games that mattered all season long. As of today, Judge is the Triple Crown leader in the AL. If he was leading in the Triple Crown and a Cy Young candidate, there would be no debate. If Judge wins it, it will be the third since Carl Yastrzemski did it back in 1967. Plus, Judge can set a home run record in the same season. We haven’t seen anyone hit and pitch on a daily basis since Babe Ruth in the 20s. Judge will have led the league in virtually every offensive category. But Judge will have done more than leading the game in home runs. In the simplest of terms, it’s hard to hit in baseball. Even Judge calls it the record to beat. The MLB record book calls it the record. It was his 61st of the season, tying Roger Maris’ American League record for most homers in a single season.

TORONTO -- At some point in the very near future, Aaron Judge will offer mementos from his record-tying 61st home run to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Indeed, Judge seemed to expertly handle the increased attention of the chase for No. There were a couple of close calls, and he knew off the bat, like, ‘Nah, that’s nothing. Maris embraced Judge’s mother immediately after the blast; Patty Judge and Maris both were invited to attend Judge’s postgame press conference at Rogers Centre. 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Aaron Judge tied Roger Maris's American League record with his 61st home run of the season, and Maris's former teammate Bobby Richardson sees many ...

“The boy is planning to get married and he can use the money, but he still wanted to give the ball back to me for nothing. Frick had infamously declared that July that if it took a hitter longer than 154 games to eclipse Ruth, a “distinctive mark in the record books” would be affixed to the total. Instead, the 61st homer found its way to Sal Durante, a 19-year-old fan from Brooklyn who caught it on the fly in the stands. Louis that off-season, but Maris took the time to commission a personalized gift for his friend. But the Yankees held a day to honor Richardson before his retirement in late 1966, a miserable year in which the team finished in last place for the first time since 1912. “He had a friend who was a jeweler and had it made. “He would be tickled to death that Judge would be the one breaking his record. Richardson, who is 5-foot-9, never had his number retired for him by the Yankees, as Maris did for his No. Judge is the first hitter to reach 61 homers in the two decades that Major League Baseball has been testing for performance-enhancing drugs. Judge connected off the Blue Jays left-hander Tim Mayza with a liner to left in the seventh inning, a two-run shot that broke a tie in an eventual 8-3 Yankees victory. When Maris was laid to rest on a bitterly cold December day in Fargo, N.D., Bobby Richardson gave the eulogy. Roger Maris was 19 days old when Babe Ruth hit his final home run for the Yankees in 1934.

For those who still don't accept Kasper's rationale for leaving Cubs TV for White Sox radio nearly two years ago, consider what happened in baseball ...

In the 1980s, exclusive MLB broadcasts generally were limited to NBC’s “Game of the Week” on Saturdays and ABC’s “Monday Night Baseball,” which was a small package. “But you do know that you’re going to be there to call it, and that is comforting on some level.” “At the end of the season, they can take certain games based on the pennant race. 61 and 62 the next day on WGN to tie McGwire, who had broken Roger Maris’ record of 61 a week before against the Cubs. “It’s two parts for me: Being a part of it in some way is the most important thing, and when you’re sitting at home, you feel left out. But he couldn’t stand not being a part of the action in the postseason. - Alyssa Bergamini will host The Score’s Bulls postgame shows, in addition to her in-game betting segments. “I don’t expect people to parse all the reasons and figure out, ‘Oh, that makes sense,’ but it definitely was part of it for me,” Kasper said. “It’s the experience of doing your job in a big moment. When Kasper was on Cubs TV, his season ended when the regular season did. Fox aired the game Thursday, Apple TV+ had the game Friday and ESPN picked up the game Sunday. 3 when the Sox’ Dylan Cease took a no-hitter into the ninth inning.

The New York Yankees slugger tied Roger Maris for the American League single-season home run record, and many believe if Judge hits No.

This story was excerpted from Jason Beck's Tigers Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox.

Miggy doesn't really like to talk too much about that stuff, so Prince and I did the talking for him, like this is so [freaking] cool. The Tigers had signed Prince Fielder that winter following Victor Martinez’s season-ending knee injury, and his presence behind Cabrera in the lineup gave opponents a threat for consequences if they were to put Cabrera on base. While he was climbing the batting leaderboards, the Tigers had ground to make up in the AL Central standings for most of the season. I didn’t expect it to be then, I expected it to be later. I didn't think about what the other guys were going to do, this or that. Said then-A’s manager Bob Melvin at the time: "When he's going good, it's very difficult to have to deal with him. “Back in the day, I was like focused about making it to the playoffs,” Cabrera said. No hitter in either league had won a Triple Crown since Carl Yastrzemski batted .326 with 44 home runs and 121 RBIs to lead the 1967 Red Sox to an American League pennant. Cabrera wasn’t leading in any of the categories heading into the All-Star break that year, and while he took over the lead in RBIs and batting average down the stretch, he had a fight on his hands to catch up in home runs. The highlights from that clinching night in Kansas City still seem fresh, with a younger Cabrera flaring balls out to right field with ease. “It's going to be great to watch,” Cabrera said a few days ago. And [subscribe](https://www.mlb.com/fans/newsletters/beat-reporter) to get it regularly in your inbox.

Los Yankees de Nueva York regresarán a su casa este fin de semana y esto es lo que cuesta un boleto para ver la posible hazaña del jardinero.

Y para el domingo el más económico está en $23 dólares. Ahora podrían ser Orioles las 'víctimas'' del home run que le dé el nuevo récord. Es por ello que aquí les dejamos cuánto costaría un boleto para ver la nueva hazaña del jardinero en la

New York Giants defensive coordinator Wink Martindale congratulated Aaron Judge on home run No. 61, calling it an "awesome" moment.

The 59-year-old father of two also appreciated what Judge did after the game: giving the home run ball to his mother. After the game, he said it’s a matter of when — not if — Judge hits No. In the bottom of the seventh inning on Wednesday night, New York Yankees superstar Aaron Judge made history.

At the games I attended, the more than 43,000 fans booed furiously each time a pitcher, any pitcher, threw Judge a pitch outside the strike zone. They audibly ...

[Shohei Ohtani](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/shohei-ohtani-is-the-present-and-future-of-baseball.html) is a fabulous two-way phenom who is among the very best pitchers and hitters in the American League. A deep run in the postseason for the Yankees will be a bonanza for MLB. His on-base and slugging percentages are, by far, the highest in the league, and if he manages to finish with the best batting average, too, he will be one of a handful of ballplayers in the history of the game to lead the league in home runs and the so-called slash stats. His breakout appeal is limited, though, by his location and the fact that his team (despite his and Trout’s presence) is a perennial loser. He is something of a cipher, like the maniacally private Joe DiMaggio, but there is no dark edge to Judge’s personality. Still, there are some elemental factors that make Judge a uniquely captivating superstar for baseball to rally around, the kind of player who can easily tug new fans into the sport. In the Midwest beyond Chicagoland, it’s difficult to rival the devotion of St. Baseball in 2022 is best understood as a regional sport that is followed intensely in populous pockets of the country. Analytics-minded writers, analysts, and fans — I am certainly one of them — have spent decades demeaning batting average, but it is what many fans still want to believe in, the stuff that feeds imaginations. Baseball’s slow pace has gotten only slower in recent years (a problem the league is desperately trying to fix), and it’s been a tough fit for the social-media age. Football may get bigger ratings, but New Yorkers will always be more invested in the fates of the Yankees and the Mets than the Giants and the Jets. At one game, some even [cheered on](https://nypost.com/2022/09/25/alex-cora-yankees-fans-rooted-for-red-sox-to-get-aaron-judge-up-again/) the hated Boston Red Sox, hoping they’d score enough runs to get Judge another at bat.

Imagine—in front of millions of fans waiting to see Yankees slugger Aaron Judge achieve history—being the fan who got a glove on the ball that ties the ...

President and founder of SCP Auctions, David Kohler, estimated Judge’s 61st home run ball could have been worth $250,000 or more, The video continues as the fan wallows and grapples with how close he truly was, at one point even throwing his hat in frustration. Visibly upset as the ball danced into Toronto’s bullpen, he threw his glove into the stands and accidentally hit the man behind him. As he launched the ball deep into left field in the seventh inning, one Toronto fan can be seen nearly snagging the historic ball. Cameras caught the fan’s reaction after his near encounter with history. The glory, the joy, the story you’d tell over and over again to your grandchildren and random strangers at cookouts.

We know Aaron Judge is in the running for a Triple Crown, currently second to Luis Arraez in the American League batting race, .315 to .313, while leading ...

Listen to her on the [Ballpark Dimensions](https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/ENTDM9357413584) podcast with Mandy Bell. In ‘33, Klein was tied for second in runs (101, Pepper Martin 122) and tied for sixth in walks (56, Mel Ott 75). Hornsby was seventh (65, Max Carey led with 80), Robinson third (87, Harmon Killebrew 103) and Yastrzemski fourth (91, Killebrew 131). He was second in both runs (125, Gehrig led with 138) and on-base percentage (.449, Mickey Cochrane .459), and fourth in walks (96, Babe Ruth 114). Follow her on Twitter [@SlangsOnSports](https://twitter.com/SlangsOnSports). These three players could practically smell that Quadruple Triple Crown – if, of course, it were a real thing and these stats were all in existence and part of the lexicon then, which they were not. In his ‘34 Crown year, Gehrig was second in walks (109, Foxx 111) and extra-base hits (95, Hank Greenberg 96), and ranked tied for third in runs (128, Charlie Gehringer 135). Medwick came in third in on-base percentage (.414, Dolph Camilli .446) and 28th in walks (41, Ott 102). Hornsby finished second in two stats: runs (133, Kiki Cuyler led with 144) and walks (83, Jack Fournier 86). In his memorable campaign, Cabrera led at least the AL in seven of our categories – the six above, plus extra-base hits. If the Triple Crown is meant to encapsulate a broad impact – hitting for average and power while driving in runs – this takes that a step further, adding in other elements of offensive impact and quantifying them in different ways. Judge, for instance, leads at least the AL in numerous other categories, too.

Aaron Judge completed his chase for 61 homers in a game against the Blue Jays on Wednesday with a blast to left field that cleared the fence and bounced ...

Maybe he can travel to Yankee Stadium on Friday for a shot at No. Best of luck next time to this fan. An equally devastated fan next to him put his glove on his head.