Judge reaches 50 HRs, tying record, then adds 51

NEW YORK -- Aaron Judge tied a large league grounds by reaching 50 location runs for the 4th time, hitting a three-run thrust for the New York Yankees successful the 2nd inning of an 8-1 victory against the Chicago White Sox connected Wednesday night.

The seven-time All-Star added his 51st of the play successful the eighth.

Judge drove a 96.6 mph sinker from Jonathan Cannon (4-10) into the Yankees bullpen successful right-center tract for a 3-1 lead. He deed a solo changeable six innings aboriginal against Cam Booser for his 46th mulithomer game.

Judge deed 52 homers arsenic a rookie successful 2017, an AL-record 62 successful 2022 and 58 past year. The lone different players with 4 50-homer seasons were Babe Ruth (1920, '21, '27, '28), Mark McGwire (1996-99) and Sammy Sosa (1998-2001).

A two-time AL MVP, the 33-year-old Judge leads the large leagues successful batting mean (.328) and OPS (1.136). He has 109 RBIs.

Judge became the 4th subordinate to deed 50 homers this year, joining Seattle's Cal Raleigh (59), Philadelphia's Kyle Schwarber (56) and the Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani (53). The lone anterior seasons with a quartet reaching that people came during the Steroids Era, by McGwire, Sosa, Ken Griffey Jr. and Greg Vaughn successful 1998, and by Barry Bonds, Luis Gonzalez, Alex Rodriguez and Sosa successful 2001.

Judge made an 85.8 mph propulsion to 2nd basal connected Colson Montgomery's second-inning thrust that went disconnected the right-field partition connected a hop, Judge's hardest propulsion since hurting his close elbow successful precocious July.