{"id":23606,"date":"2025-09-25T01:09:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T01:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=23606"},"modified":"2025-09-25T01:09:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T01:09:25","slug":"yankees-aaron-judge-reaches-50-homers-for-4th-time-tying-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=23606","title":{"rendered":"Yankees&#8217; Aaron Judge reaches 50 homers for 4th time, tying record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/><span class=\"timestamp \">Sep 24, 2025, 08:30 PM ET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Aaron Judge tied a major league record by reaching 50 home runs for the fourth time in hitting a go-ahead, three-run drive for the New York Yankees during the second inning against the Chicago White Sox on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Judge drove a 96.6 mph sinker from Jonathan Cannon 392 feet into the Yankees&#8217; bullpen in right-center field for a 3-1 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Judge tallied 52 homers as a rookie in 2017, an American League-record 62 in 2022 and 58 last year. The only other players with four 50-homer seasons are Babe Ruth (1920, 1921, 1927, 1928), Mark McGwire (1996 to 1999) and Sammy Sosa (1998 to 2001).<\/p>\n<p>Yankees slugger Aaron Judge tied a major league record held by Babe Ruth, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa by reaching 50 home runs for the fourth time.\u00a0Brad Penner-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>A two-time AL MVP, the 33-year-old Judge leads the major leagues in batting average (.326) and OPS (1.130). He has 108 RBIs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sep 24, 2025, 08:30 PM ET NEW YORK &#8212; Aaron Judge tied a major league record by reaching 50 home runs for the fourth time in hitting a go-ahead, three-run drive for the New York Yankees during the second inning against the Chicago White Sox on Wednesday night. Judge drove a 96.6 mph sinker from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[2779,5377,14400,675,2243,1099,286,6652,5808],"class_list":{"0":"post-23606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-4th","9":"tag-aaron","10":"tag-homers","11":"tag-judge","12":"tag-reaches","13":"tag-record","14":"tag-time","15":"tag-tying","16":"tag-yankees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}