Aaron Judge hits 58th, 59th homers, ties MLB record for most multi-HR game in a season

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All rise, and stay risen, because Aaron Judge went deep twice in Sunday’s Yankees series final in Milwaukee, and is now just two round-trippers away from history.

Judge hit a solo homer in the top of the third, the front half of a back-to-back with Anthony Rizzo, and then went deep again in the seventh, this time a solo shot that was the second half of a back-to-back with Aaron Hicks:

The two homers gave Judge his 11^th multi-homer fame of the season, tying Hank Greenberg in 1938 and Sammy Sosa in 1998 for the most in a single-season, and he is now tied for third on the single-season list in American League history.

Roger Maris’ 61 in ’61 is of course both the AL and Yankees’ record, and only Babe Ruth, who hit 60 in 1927 and 59 in 1921, has hit as many as Judge in a single American League campaign – and for those who chase history with an asterisk, Judge’s 59^th came in his 142^nd game and the Yankees’ 146th game, while Maris played 161 of 162 (and needed all 162 games to get to 61), while Ruth’s totals were 151 of 154 in ’27 and 152 of 154 in ’21.

In terms of pace, Maris hit No. 59 on Sept. 20, 1961, in the Yankees’ 154^th game, so Judge is eight games up on that pace, and Maris went on to hit No. 60 four games later, and the record-setter in the 162^nd and final game of the season.

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Judge is also ahead of Ruth, as the Bambino hit No. 59 in 1921 in the Yankees’ 153^rd and final game of the season, and in 1927, he hit his 58^th and 59^th in Game 152 and No. 60 in Game 153.

Even better? The Yankees play their next six games after Sunday at home, so based on his pace of one home run per 2.47 team games, you might want to earmark a couple games during that homestand for a crack at history.

Amazingly, No. 99 is also chasing the Triple Crown, as while his now-59 homers laps the field (Yordan Alvarez has 37) and his 127 RBI put him more than a dozen up on Jose Ramirez, Judge also has his average up to .316, just one point shy of Luis Arraez for the AL lead.

Only three words can describe it: what a season.

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