Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge and Cardinals designated hitter Albert Pujols have notched historic Septembers at the plate, with Judge likely to make more history before the month is over.
: Judge, 30, and Pujols, 42, have electrified the second half of the MLB season with their hot bats and historic home runs.
Judge hit his 60th home run of the season on Tuesday against the Pittsburgh Pirates and is now one run away from tying the longtime American League record of 61 homers by Roger Maris with 12 games left in the regular season. Only five players — Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Roger Maris and Babe Ruth — have reached 60. But McGwire has admitted to steroid use while Bonds and Sosa have denied allegations that they used performance-enhancing drugs.“When you talk about Ruth and Maris and [Mickey] Mantle and all these Yankees greats, you never imagine as a kid getting mentioned with them,” Judge said.
Pujols, already a future Hall-of-Famer, joined baseball greats Bonds, Ruth and Hank Aaron as the only players to hit 700-plus home runs in their careers. The veteran hit No. 699 and No. 700 against the Dodgers, his former team."It's pretty special," Pujols said after the game,"When it's really gonna hit me is when I'm done, at the end of the season, when I'm retired, and probably a moment or two after that I can look at the numbers.
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