![]() * Josh Hamilton: He hit 43 homers, drove in 128 runs for Texas in 2012. Note: 28 players in history have hit over 500 home runs, only these five did it with one team!ĥ worst contracts in Angel history – to date The only 5 players to hit 500 career home runs with the same team 354 with 13 home runs and 34 RBIs in just 31 games. 179, he was claimed by Texas and then released this past spring. The Yankees signed the 36-year-old who is having an out-of body season, hitting. Released by the Cardinals after back-to-back seasons of hitting. *The Angels fired Joe Maddon and replaced him with Phil Nevin. *The streaking Seattle Mariners (14 straight wins and counting) and Baltimore Orioles (10 straight wins in July). The Houston ace could be in line for his third Cy Young Award after missing the entire 2021 season. The 39-year-old coming off Tommy John surgery had a spectacular first half with a 12-3 record and 1.89 ERA. Maris, of course, went on to hit 61 homers in 1961. *Aaron Judge’s 33 home runs ties Roger Maris’ Yankee record for most home runs prior to the All-Star break. Here are some Barry Bonds bombs on your way out.5 takeaways from the first half of the 2022 baseball season Remember, Stanton hit 59 bombs back in 2017 as a member of the Miami Marlins, which is tied with some guy named Babe Ruth for ninth all time. (Photo by Jon Soohoo/Getty Images)Īt the very least, Judge should set the all-time Yankees record by passing Maris sometime in the middle of September.Īnd hey, he can always ask teammate Giancarlo Stanton about the art of the chase. Barry Bonds is greeted at Home Plate by his son after hitting his 72nd home run of the season to Break Mark McGwire’s single season record. A seven-game West Coast swing at the end of August against the A’s and Angels seems like a good week to circle, for what it’s worth.īarring injury – or rest, which the Yankees could do with Judge seeing as they lead the division by a billion games – the 30-year-old should give Bonds a run for his money. The Yankees play the 16th-toughest schedule the rest of the way, so the opportunity to make up ground will be there. And, if anything, he’ll be just two off the pace, max, at the end of the month.Īll 70 of Mark McGwire's home runs in '98 Well, Aaron Judge hit his 42nd round-tripper in game 102 for the Yanks.īonds finished July with 44 homers, which will be tough for Judge to match, but don’t put it past him. So, Bonds’ 42nd longball of the season came in game 103 for the Giants. However, a cold streak followed and Bonds didn’t hit #42 until July 26th (he hit two that day and got to 43). Taking a quick trip down memory lane, Bonds hit home run No. He’s gone just two games since July 21 without a bomb and has hit nine home runs in the last 10 days. So, while Judge is in the middle of a legendary campaign, he needs to pick up the pace just a bit if he wants to make real history. NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JUNE 23: Aaron Judge #99 of the New York Yankees celebrates his ninth inning game winning base hit against the Houston Astros at Yankee Stadium on Jin New York City. ![]() Mark McGwire is second on the all-time single-season list with 70, which he also did during that ’98 season. Sixty-seven longballs would certainly be impressive, and would beat Sammy Sosa to become the third-most in a single-season (Sosa did it during the ELECTRIC 1998 season), but it would still come up just short of Bonds’ mark of 73. ![]() Thanks to another tater, he has upped that pace to 67. ![]() Being the crazed Bronx Bomber that he is, Judge then hit his 42nd homer of the season in the second inning of the team’s Saturday afternoon contest.Īccording to MLB’s Judge Home Run Tracker (yep, it exists), going into Saturday he was on pace for 66 homers, which would pass Roger Maris (61) for most in team history. Well, thanks to his two-homer game Friday against Kansas City, including a grand slam that broke the game open, Judge ended Friday at 41 bombs. Hope your birthday is a huge splash, □ #ForeverGiant /WsHTtSXVEE It’s July 30, there are roughly 60 games left in the regular season, and we’re getting perilously close to Barry Bonds territory for Judge.īonds famously hit 73 homers back in 2001 – you know, the golden age of baseball when the juice was flowing and balls were leaving the park at record levels? Aaron Judge is on another level this season, but could the Yankees’ slugger reach that level? ![]()
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