Aaron Judge on Wednesday reached 300 home runs faster than any other MLB player, going deep in the New York Yankees’ 10-2 win over the Chicago White Sox.
Judge hit the mark in his 955th game and 3,431st at-bat with a three-run drive in the eighth inning. The six-time All-Star and 2022 American League Most Valuable Player drove a 3-0 up-and-in sinker from Chad Kuhl into the White Sox bullpen in left for his major-league-leading 43rd homer.
Ralph Kiner reached 300 homers in his 1,087th game, while Babe Ruth did in his 3,831st at-bat.
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“What Aaron’s doing, it’s a select few in the history of the game that you start talking about these kinds of seasons he’s having,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “Just a great player, great leader and I think everyone’s obviously really pumped in there that he got that done.”
Chicago had intentionally walked Juan Soto to bring up Judge, who had not homered on a 3-0 pitch since 2021.
Soto had homered in the first inning off Davis Martin, his fourth in two games and 34th this season.
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Austin Wells followed Judge’s drive with one of his own, the eighth time this season New York hit back-to-back homers.
He also capped a three-run seventh by driving in two with a single that put the Yankees on top 4-2.
Gavin Sheets hit his first big-league opposite-field homer leading off the second against rookie Will Warren and singled in a run in the fourth for a 2-1 lead.
Chicago lost their 12th straight series and dropped to 29-93. The White Sox are on pace to finish 39-123, which would be the most losses since the 1899 Cleveland Spiders went 20-134.
Oswaldo Cabrera got the Yankees going when he singled leading off the seventh against Justin Anderson and became the first Yankee to score from second on a sacrifice fly since Jorge Posada against the Los Angeles Angels on Aug. 19, 2000. Cabrera did it when right fielder Dominic Fletcher ran down Alex Verdugo’s drive against Dominic Leone (0-2) in the gap, hanging onto the ball and rolling on the warning track after he tried to avoid a sliding Luis Robert Jr.
Posada did it standing up when left fielder Ron Gant lost track of the outs.
Cabrera was “a little bit” surprised to see third-base coach Luis Rojas send him.
“But at the same time, I was ready for it,” he said.
Elsewhere on Wednesday, it was:
‧ Angels 2, Blue Jays 9
‧ Brewers 5, Dodgers 4
‧ Diamondbacks 11, Rockies 4
‧ Giants 2, Braves 13
‧ Guardians 6, Cubs 1
‧ Mets 9, Athletics 1
‧ Orioles 4, Nationals 1
‧ Padres 8, Pirates 2
‧ Phillies 9, Marlins 5
‧ Rays 1, Astros 2 (10i)
‧ Red Sox 7, Rangers 9 (10i)
‧ Reds 9, Cardinals 2
‧ Tigers 3, Mariners 2
‧ Twins 1, Royals 4
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