Aaron Judge’s numbers continue to rise.
With another home run and three more RBI in Tuesday’s 10-1 win in Kansas City, the Yankees slugger again bolstered his remarkable hot streak.
Tuesday’s 436-foot blast marked Judge’s MLB-leading 25th home run through 69 team games, inviting early comparisons to the 2022 campaign in which Judge set an American League single-season record with 62 homers and won AL MVP.
“I’m trying not to take that for granted,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said Tuesday of Judge’s surge. “It’s a lot of fun to witness and to watch what he’s doing on a nightly basis. It’s pretty special.”
Judge’s performance over the 41 games between April 27 and Tuesday have made his slow start to 2024 a very, very distant memory.
Here’s a deeper dive into Judge’s stats.
21: That’s how many home runs Judge hit during that 41-game stretch. The 21 homers are seven more than anyone else’s in that time, with Houston’s Kyle Tucker ranking second with 14.
49: Judge’s RBI total between April 27 and Tuesday also led all MLB hitters. Cleveland’s Jose Ramirez ranked second with 39. Entering Tuesday, Judge and Ramirez were tied for the MLB lead with 62 RBI this season.
.965: Judge’s sky-high slugging percentage in those 41 games appears to be straight out of a video game, but it is indeed real. It’s more than .300 points higher than the runner-up Tucker’s .652 mark over that stretch.
.520: Same goes for Judge’s .520 on-base percentage, which was more than .100 points higher than anyone else’s in baseball other than San Diego’s Jurickson Profar. Profar’s .439 OBP was still a distant second to Judge’s.
.401: That’s Judge’s batting average in that time frame, which also leads the majors. Next up is the Padres’ Luis Arraez — he of back-to-back batting titles — who hit .351.
.197: That was Judge’s 2024 batting average as of May 2, making his current numbers all the more impressive. He finished Tuesday with a season-best .309 average for the year.
1.149: That’s Judge’s on-base plus slugging percentage this season through Tuesday. If he finished with that number, it would be the highest since Juan Soto, then of the Nationals, recorded an OPS of 1.185 during the COVID-shortened 2020 season. It would be the highest over a full season since Barry Bonds’ 1.421 OPS in 2004.
58.7: Judge is on pace for just under 59 home runs this season, putting his AL record within striking distance.
27: Judge had 27 home runs through 69 team games in 2022, meaning he’s just behind his record-setting pace this year.
31-11: The Yankees’ record since April 27, entering Wednesday. Judge played in all but one of those games.
901: That’s how many games it took Judge to reach 280 career home runs, giving him the most homers for a player in his first 1,000 games, according to MLB stat maven Sarah Langs. Judge needed nearly 100 fewer games to get there than the previous record-holder, Ryan Howard, who hit 279 home runs through 1,000 games. Judge achieved the feat during a two-homer outing on Saturday.
1: In addition to leading the world in home runs and OPS, Judge ranked first among MLB hitters this season with a .437 on-base percentage, a .712 slugging percentage and 55 walks. His 21 doubles led the AL and ranked second in the majors. For reference, Judge posted a .425 OBP, a .686 slugging percentage and a 1.111 OPS in 2022.
