Anthony Rizzo muscled his 20th home run of the season in the first inning on Monday night’s 9-5 win over the A’s, just one day after Aaron Judge blasted a walk-off three-run blast to take down the Astros in that four-game series finale.
Together, the two Yankee sluggers have reached a milestone only a select few have in franchise history.
Both now are at the 20 homer mark for the season, and both have at least 50 RBI. Per the YES Network, they are just the fourth Bronx Bomber duo to reach those marks through 74 games in a season, and the other pairs to accomplish that feat are fairly recognizable, to say the least.
Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth were the first pair to do it, and did so in three different seasons, in 1927, 1930, and 1931. Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle did so in their historic 1961 campaign, and it wasn’t accomplished again for 50 years until Curtis Granderson and Mark Teixeira did it in 2011.
Now, 11 years later, Rizzo and Judge join that exclusive group.
It is a particularly promising trend from Rizzo, who hit 22 home runs last season and his well on his way to eclipse that mark and get back to the prolific power threat he was with the Cubs, when he eclipsed 30 home runs in four straight seasons from 2014 to 2017.
Follow Ryan Chichester on Twitter: @ryanchichester1
Follow WFAN on Social Media
Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitch
Listen live to WFAN:
Audacy App | Online Stream | Smart Speaker (just say ‘Play W-F-A-N’)
