Without a doubt, Aaron Judge will remember this night for the rest of his days, as he opened the Yankees game against the Texas Rangers with a home run that made him the man with the most home runs in an American League season .
“El Juez” hit his home run number 61 with this homer, thus surpassing the mark of Roger Maris, who managed to get 61 balls out of the stadium in the same season.
Maris’s record was valid from 1961 to the present, and for several days Judge had been flirting with the idea of surpassing him.
The Rangers’ starting pitcher had only thrown two pitches in the game this night, and as if it were a metaphor, the third time was the charm, and after the swing the American sent her into the stands through left field.
That way Aaron Judge enters the history books, and taking into account the performance of this campaign, it is not ruled out that he could increase the record in the coming days.