New York Yankees center fielder Aaron Judge has been on an absolute tear since the beginning of May and now leads all of MLB with 21 home runs and has his team sitting pretty at 41-19 atop the American League.
The 14 homers he hit in May marked the third consecutive month Judge hit at least a dozen homers in May, and this hot streak has put him within shouting distance of an impressive major league record that he now seems like a lock to break sometime this season.
USA Today’s Bob Nightengale shared a stat on X that said Judge is at 278 career home runs in just 895 games after last night’s 464-foot moonshot in a 7-3 win over the San Francisco Giants, which puts him 22 homers away from 300 and within striking distance of Sammy Sosa’s record for the fewest amount of games to reach 300 home runs at 1,052.
Aaron Judge, with another homer tonight, now has 278 career homers in just 895 games.
The quickest to 300 HRs?
Sammy Sosa in 1,052 games.
That record is about to be shattered.— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) June 2, 2024
All Judge has to do to break this record is hit 22 home runs over his next 157 games, which seems like a fairly safe bet given that he just hit 14 in one month.
If Judge was a bit younger and stayed a little healthier, we would probably be talking about his potential to make a run at the all-time record of 762, especially with the Barry Bonds-like performance Judge has put forth in San Francisco this weekend with three homers in two games.
Judge is on pace to challenge his own American League record for 62 homers in a season, and is currently on pace for 57.
The post Aaron Judge Is On The Verge Of Shattering MLB Record appeared first on The Cold Wire.