Aaron Judge's 350th career home run
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New York Yankees star Aaron Judge added another impressive accomplishment to his collection in Saturday's loss against the Chicago Cubs (box score), launching his 35th home run of the season and the 350th of his career.
Aaron Judge became the fastest player to hit 350 career home runs, hitting with a two-run shot for the Yankees in the 9th inning vs. the Cubs.
Judge has been pretty great as well. With a 3-for-4 performance on Saturday, the All-Star and reigning MVP is leading the league with a .358 average and a 1.204 OPS. He also has 81 RBI. His 35 home runs, meanwhile, are second in baseball â Seattleâs Cal Raleigh has 38 â and the most ever by a Yankee prior to the All-Star break.
Yankees superstar Aaron Judge is in a home run flurry that has rarely been seen in MLB history. Through his age-29 season, he had 158 career home runs and on Saturday, at age 33, he hit his 350th career home run.
With chants of âMVPâ from the Stadium crowd still echoing, Judge made almost as good a catch on the next play, as he raced in and made a diving play on Dansby Swansonâs sinking liner for the final out of the inning.
Aaron Judge (New York Yankees), Eugenio Suarez (Arizona Diamondbacks), Cal Raleigh (Seattle Mariners), Seiya Suzuki (Chicago Cubs) and Pete Alonso (New York Mets) have combined to make some rare baseball history that hasn't been seen in the last 19 years.
They are two of the biggest stars in the game. And they will both be in Atlanta next week for the MLB All-Star Game presented by Mastercard. But Aaron Judge of the Yankees and Pete Crow-Armstrong of the Cubs are first spending the weekend together at Yankee Stadium.
The robbery occurred immediately after Judgeâs lone misplay of the night, when he said he lost Nico Hoernerâs single to right-center in the lights that nearly knocked Rodón out of the game, but Boone gave the lefty one more batter and he got Tucker.