Aaron Judge hits 61st home run; ties Roger Maris for AL season record
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All rise! Slugger Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees has tied the American League home run record with his 61st bomb of the season, matching the late great Roger Maris' 1961 mark.
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All rise! Slugger Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees has tied the American League home run record with his 61st bomb of the season, matching the late great Roger Maris' 1961 mark.
With Wednesday night's dinger, the New York Yankees superstar has tied a record set in 1961 and is the first major leaguer to hit so many home runs in a season since 2001.
In one of the greatest seasons in major league history, Judge, the Yankees outfielder, has matched Maris’s American League record for home runs in a single season.
Aaron Judge tied Roger Maris' American League record of 61 home runs in a season, hitting a tiebreaking, two-run drive for the New York Yankees in the seventh inning that led them over Toronto Blue Jays 8-3 on Wednesday night.
The New York Yankees slugger did it with a tie-breaking, two-run drive in the seventh inning. It was 117.4 mph off the bat and took just 3.8 seconds to land 394 feet away.
New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge blasted his 61st home run of the season on Wednesday to equal the legendary Roger Maris's longstanding American League record.
Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge was in the middle of a homerless streak when he hit his 61st homerun of the season on Wednesday, tying Roger Maris for the American League record.
