{"id":166998,"date":"2025-09-25T00:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T00:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/166998\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T00:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T00:56:07","slug":"yankees-aaron-judge-reaches-50-homers-for-4th-time-tying-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/166998\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees&#8217; Aaron Judge reaches 50 homers for 4th time, tying record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; <a data-player-guid=\"e3e39e69-2861-f5b5-49be-b0880534c802\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33192\/aaron-judge\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Judge<\/a> tied a major league record by reaching 50 home runs for the fourth time, hitting a go-ahead, three-run drive for the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"2b9cedf3-ce60-0bcf-fafe-8cd055255685\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/nyy\/new-york-yankees\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Yankees<\/a> in the second inning against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"8f4800c6-3c05-b3d5-8186-9750cd72a3c2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/chw\/chicago-white-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago White Sox<\/a> on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Judge drove a 96.6 mph sinker from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4620398\/jonathan-cannon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Cannon<\/a> 392 feet into the Yankees&#8217; bullpen in right-center field for a 3-1 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Judge tallied 52 homers as a rookie in 2017, an American League-record 62 in 2022 and 58 last year. The only other players with four 50-homer seasons are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/bio\/_\/id\/27035\/babe-ruth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Babe Ruth<\/a> (1920, 1921, 1927, 1928), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/bio\/_\/id\/43201\/mark-mcgwire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark McGwire<\/a> (1996 to 1999) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/bio\/_\/id\/2187\/sammy-sosa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sammy Sosa<\/a> (1998 to 2001).<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Yankees slugger Aaron Judge tied the major league record held by Babe Ruth, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa by reaching 50 home runs for the fourth time.\u00a0Brad Penner-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>A two-time AL MVP, the 33-year-old Judge leads the major leagues in batting average (.326) and OPS (1.130). He has 108 RBIs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8212; Aaron Judge tied a major league record by reaching 50 home runs for the fourth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-166998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}