Aaron Judge sets Yankees rookie home run record

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After his performance, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred stated that Judge is a player "who can become the face of the game". On July 21, Judge hit a home run that almost travelled out of Safeco Field. The ball was hit so hard that Statcast could not measure the details on the home run. Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge went deep again twice on Monday afternoon against the Royals to make history. He connected twice in Yankee Stadium, giving him 50 home runs on the season. That means Judge now owns the all-time single-season rookie home run record.

They entered Monday five games back of the Red Sox, so winning the AL East is a major long shot. By the time the day was over, Judge had hit two more blasts to tie and then pass McGwire on the list, becoming the first rookie to hit 50 home runs in a season. Aaron Judge added to his superb rookie season by breaking Mark McGwire's rookie home run record.

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Mark McGwire, who hit 49 with the A's in 1987, previously held the mark. Judge's first homer of the season was a quiet sign of the big hits to come. His solo shot off Mychal Givens in the eighth inning tied the score between Baltimore and New York and set up a 7-3 Yankees win. Sabathia (13-5) took a 6-0 lead into the seventh, when Salvador Perez hit a two-run homer and Mike Moustakas chased him by going deep four pitches later.

The feat was accomplished once before by opponents -- the Dodgers' Ernie Koy and the Phillies' Heinie Mueller -- on April 19, 1938. Youmans’ attorney reasoned at the time that the bidding could get crazy considering how many passionate Yankees fans there are out there. He severely overestimated just how important fans regarded the ball commemorating the 7th-most home runs hit in a single season. The baseball Aaron Judge hit for his record-setting 62nd home run is being put up for auction, where it’s expected to become the most expensive ball ever sold.

Judge has already broken a single-season record that stood since 1936

Surprisingly enough, he was just a much better overall hitter away from Yankee Stadium. He drove in a lot more runs (57 vs. 41) and had a much higher OPS (1.019 vs. .810) as a visiting player in nearly an identical number of plate appearances. Those 52 homers not only led the league in 2017, but it also broke Mark McGwire‘s MLB rookie home run record. Those honors belong to Pete Alonso now, but Judge will forever be able to say he was the first MLB rookie to ever record a 50-homer season.

Judge was unanimously voted American League Rookie of the Year in 2017 and placed second in the voting for the AL Most Valuable Player Award. Due to his large size and strength, he has elicited comparisons to teammate Giancarlo Stanton, Richie Sexson, Dave Winfield, and Willie Stargell. End-of-season awards for Judge included selection as an outfielder on Baseball America's All-MLB Team, the Players Choice Award for Outstanding AL Rookie, and a Silver Slugger Award.

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He made his professional debut in 2014 with the Charleston Riverdogs of the Class A South Atlantic League. His batting average , .428 on-base percentage (OBP; 3rd), .530 slugging percentage (SLG; 6th), and scored nine home runs with 45 RBIs in 65 games for Charleston. The Yankees promoted him to the Tampa Yankees of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League during the season, where he hit .283 with .411 OBP , .442 SLG, eight home runs, and 33 RBIs. On July 30, Judge became the second-fastest player in history to hit his 200th career home run , launching a two-run shot off of Jon Heasley of the Kansas City Royals. On August 29, during a game against the Los Angeles Angels, Judge hit a home run off reliever Ryan Tepera. He became only the tenth player in Major League Baseball history to record multiple 50 home run seasons.

His 496-foot blast to left field was the longest home run hit by anybody since ESPN started recording homer distances in 2009, and it came in his first career four-hit game. He also became the first Yankee to hit 20 homers before the All-Star Break in his age-25 season since Roger Maris did it in 1960. The Yankees debuted a cheering section in the right-field seats of Yankee Stadium on May 22, 2017. Called "The Judge's Chambers", the section spans three rows in section 104 and contains 18 seats. Fans are chosen by the team to sit there and are outfitted with black robes, wigs, and foam gavels. In a game against the Oakland Athletics on May 28, Judge hit his first career grand slam.

The American baseball player, Aaron Judge is a fan favorite for his record-breaking plays, especially after setting the AL record this MLB season. Taking the AL home run crown with 52 homers, Judge eclipsed the previous rookie record of 49, set in 1987 by the Athletics' Mark McGwire. Thirty-three of Judge's homers came at Yankee Stadium, surpassing Babe Ruth for the most hit at home by a Yankees player. With the Yanks trailing 6-3 in the bottom of the third inning, Judge hit a towering two-run homer to bring New York to within one run.

"Everybody's going say, oh, the strikeouts. But I think if I'm an owner of a GM, I'll take 300 strikeouts with the year he's putting up," Yankees third baseman Todd Frazier said. "The way he started, I thought he was going to hit 60, 70," Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez said through a translator. Youmans declined to give the ball to Judge and instead kept it so he could sell it. In November, Youmans’ attorney said that they had turned down a $3 million offer for the ball.

He also hit two home runs in on the 9/11 Memorial 20th anniversary game on September 11 against the New York Mets with his 31st and 32nd home runs. This ranks him 2nd in MLB history with the fewest games to 150 home runs . After scuffling some in July and August, Judge now has 13 home runs in September, the most in any month this season. He's hit seven in his last seven games, a stretch that's put him right back in the middle of the American League MVP race, alongside Houston's Jose Altuve and Cleveland's Jose Ramirez.

He was hitting .329 with 30 homers and 66 RBIs when he won the All-Star Home Run Derby. Judge hit his 49th homer of the season on Monday afternoon in the Bronx. Judge’s bat from his record-tying 61st homer is on its way to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Mark McGwire’s 70th home run ball from 1998 is the most expensive baseball ever, having sold for $3.05 million. After batting .270 with 19 home runs in 93 games for the RailRiders in 2016, Judge was summoned to join the Yankees in the Bronx that August.