The Briefing Room
General Category => Sports/Entertainment/MSM/Social Media => Topic started by: Gefn on September 29, 2022, 01:47:52 am
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TORONTO -- New York Yankees star Aaron Judge hit his 61st home run of the season Wednesday night against the Toronto Blue Jays, tying Roger Maris' American League record.
It took Maris until Oct. 1, the final game of the 1961 season, to hit his 61st, which broke Babe Ruth's single-season mark of 60 home runs set in 1927.
Judge did it Sept. 28, in Game No. 155 for New York. A day after the Yankees clinched the American League East title, Judge, batting leadoff as the designated hitter, took Toronto's Tim Mayza deep in the seventh inning with a runner on base. Judge -- who walked in his first at-bat, popped out in his second and grounded out in his third -- had gone seven games without a home run since managing just one solo shot during New York's 6-0 homestand.
He and the Yankees then headed to Toronto looking to make history at Rogers Centre. He went 1 for 3 with a single in the series opener Monday and walked four times in Tuesday's division clincher, before ultimately launching the historic shot Wednesday.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/34685726/new-york-yankees-star-aaron-judge-hits-61st-home-run-season-tying-roger-maris-mark
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Babe Ruth hit 60 in 154 games...which was the number of games in a 'season' in 1927.
Roger Maris hit 61 in 162 games IIRC. I remember the networks breaking into regular programming for Maris' at bats (AB) during that time.