![]() ![]() Maris' mark has been exceeded six times, but all have been tainted by the stench of steroids. 1, 1961, against Boston Red Sox pitcher Tracy Stallard. He has a chance to become the first AL Triple Crown winner since Detroit's Miguel Cabrera in 2012. 313 with 130 RBIs, also the top totals in the AL. The home run came in the fourth plate appearance of the night for Judge, ending a streak of 34 plate appearances without a home run. This was the Yankees' 155th game of the season, leaving them seven more in the regular season. Judge had gone seven games without a home run - his longest drought this season was nine in mid-August. All three stars reached those huge numbers playing for the Yankees.īarry Bonds holds the big league record of 73 for the San Francisco Giants in 2001. Judge moved past the 60 home runs Babe Ruth hit in 1927, which had stood as the major league mark until Maris broke it in 1961. mPh6O92oZj- New York Yankees September 29, 2022 Noel Harris is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer.#AllRise for SIXTY-ONE. With the Yankees playing more than half of those games at home, he’s sure to have plenty of support behind him as he chases both team history and maybe even his fellow Northern California native. It will take a July-like hot streak for Judge to put some heat on the record. Judge - a graduate of Linden High School in San Joaquin County, about 95 miles east of San Francisco - has about a month left to first pass Maris then try to chase the crown held by Bonds, an alum of Serra High in San Mateo. However, Bonds’ monster season ended with 177 walks, third most in major-league history, and just 93 strikeouts - 53 fewer than Judge’s total through Saturday.īut the main number in baseball circles is the home run, which is what everyone will be watching. He seems to have warmed up again, though, hitting six in his last 11 outings.Ī look beyond the home-run totals shows Judge in 2022 has a statistical advantage over Bonds in 2001 in just two categories to this point: RBIs (114 to 110) and stolen bases (15 to 11). Since that torrid stretch, however, Judge endured a cold stretch where he went nine games without hitting one out. ![]() He had 36 at that point - 11 more than what Judge had after the same number of games this season.Ībout the same point in 2001 that Bonds cooled off, Judge got hot - to the point that he matched Bonds’ season total of 42 long balls through 102 games. Judge has hit two in a game nine times this season.īonds’ largest gap in pace came after the Giants’ 67th game. For the season, he has gone yard at a rate of about two home runs every five games.īonds had 10 multi-homer contests in 2001, including two three-homer games. Judge would need 21 homers over New York’s final 29 games to match Bonds, which means he would have to average more than two homers every three games. Bonds’ 73 were three better than Mark McGwire’s 70 in 1998. He’s on a one-year, $19 million deal - an amount that’s tied for 53rd highest among players in 2022, according to Spotrac - so Judge is setting himself up for a team (could it be the Giants?) to break the bank on a long-term deal this offseason.īut to have a shot at even challenging Bonds, Judge will have to go on a major tear. Judge is in his sixth full season in the majors (he played just 27 games in 2016). Maris broke Babe Ruth’s major-league mark of 60, which stood for 34 years. Through the same number of Giants games in 2001, Bonds had 56.įollowing Saturday’s 2-1 road loss to the Rays, in which Judge homered in the ninth inning, he’s on pace to hit 63, which would give him just the ninth 60-homer season in major-league history and would be two more than the AL record set by Roger Maris, also of the Yankees, in 1961. Through Saturday, the Yankees had played 133 games and Judge had a majors-leading 52 home runs, 16 more than his closest competitor. The fact that Judge, playing half his games in homer-friendly Yankee Stadium, is having a potentially historic season but likely won’t challenge the numbers put up by Bonds reiterates just how epic that 2001 season was. However, should Judge go on another hot streak - as he did in July, when he hit 12 in 14 games - he could reignite the conversation. ![]() His current pace makes it unlikely he can approach the record 73 hit by former Giants outfielder Barry Bonds in 2001, but at one point this season he was able to put himself in lockstep with the home run king. ![]()
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