We know Aaron Judge is in the running for a Triple Crown, currently second to Luis Arraez in the American League batting race, .315 to .313, while leading MLB in homers and the AL in RBIs.
We know that he’d be the first player to win a Triple Crown in a season with 60-plus homers.
But did we know he could also win just the third Quadruple Triple Crown in AL/NL history? Let us explain.
He’s baseball’s top prospect, a power-hitting prodigy rocketing his way to stardom. On Friday, 20-year-old Francisco Álvarez will join the Mets ahead of their biggest series of the year.
There is more on the line this weekend than a flag. What’s really at stake here is that it’s going to decide who has to play in the best-of-three Wild Card Series as the No. 4 seed … and who gets the bye as the No. 2 seed and the right to skip right to the NLDS.
After hitting his 61st home run of the season on Wednesday night, Aaron Judge took a moment to reflect on what he and only one other Yankee had done. “I definitely know what he went through at that time,” the slugger said of Roger Maris.
At the time, there was no way of knowing that Sept. 30, 1972 would mark the final time Roberto Clemente stepped to the plate in a regular-season game — or that he’d join an exclusive club in his last at-bat.