The slugger Aaron Judge, figure of the New York Yankeeshit the 62nd home run of the 2022 Major League Baseball (MLB) campaign on Tuesday night to break Roger Maris’s mythical home run mark.
At the start of the second game of a double set, “El Juez” punished the third delivery of the match by Jesús Tinoco, a Venezuelan pitcher for the Texas Rangers, to take the ball out of the left field.
In accordance with Baseball Referencethe mighty New Yorker’s historic connection clocked in at a speed of 100.2 miles per hour and traveled 391 feet at Globe Life Field.
SIXTY-TWO! BASEBALL HISTORY! @TheJudge44 is the American League home run King! pic.twitter.com/QKrcuOvZMU
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Just as it happened in homer 61, Roger Maris Jr. and the mother of the New York player gave each other a big hug in the midst of the hubbub in the park in Arlington, Texas.
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In this way, Aaron Judge is the new home run monarch in a season of the American League and the Yankees organization.
A season like no other in the history of @The majors!
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A week ago, the son of the former Yankees legend stated that the Maris Family will recognize the record of the lanky outfielder as an absolute mark, since what was done by other players (Barry Bonds, Mark Mcgwire and Sammy Sosa) was under the use of forbidden substances.
On this day, Judge went 2-1, with runs scored and an RBI to reach 131 RBIs in the campaign.
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For his part, Gerrit Cole struck out nine rivals to finish the season with 257 strikeouts, the highest number in the American League, and establish a new record in the Yankees franchise.
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However, Cole ended up taking the loss (13-8) on a historic night in what is considered the “best baseball in the world.”
The Yankees will meet again tomorrow (Wednesday) against the Rangers in pursuit of reaching 100 wins in the last game of the regular round.
