Yankees’ Aaron Judge joins 1928 Babe Ruth in 2-player MLB history originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
Aaron Judge won’t care about any sort of records.
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The New York Yankees’ season ended on Wednesday night in ALDS Game 4 against the Toronto Blue Jays, and so the 6-foot-7 superstar will be most concerned about that.
But he did just have a special postseason, one that goes against the trend line of his prior playoff appearances. And it’s worth noticing how special it was.
Judge is just the second player in MLB history to bat at least .600 in a postseason series while having multiple hits in every game, according to OptaStats.
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The only player to have done this before Judge? Babe Ruth in the 1928 World Series.
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It’s pretty remarkable that even when Judge is setting a record that could’ve been done by anyone in baseball, it still somehow winds up being Ruth that he’s keeping pace with.
Judge was the only reason this series was in a fourth game to begin with. He hit the epic, three-run home run in Game 3 on a 99 MPH fastball in off the plate, clanging it off the foul pole to start a party in the Bronx.
And it’s certainly not Judge’s fault that the Yankees aren’t moving on. He did plenty of hitting, including in key spots.
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He’d almost certainly trade series victory for any of these numbers, but that’s not how the game of baseball works.
Judge did his job, and it could’ve been more than enough, but in this the rest of the Yankees ensured that Judge’s efforts would be foiled.
He still joined Ruth in history, whether he likes it or not.
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