Aaron Judge just keeps making history.
And when Sunday's New York Yankees game concludes, he will have officially made some more.
Judge is going to win the AL batting championship.
And he's going to do it while hitting more than 50 homers in the season (he enters Sunday with 53).
Judge will be the third player in MLB history with at least 50 homers in a season to also win the batting title, according to MLB Network's Sarah Langs.
The other two:
- Mickey Mantle in 1956
- Jimmie Foxx in 1938
Mantle hit 52 homers in his batting title season in '56. And Foxx hit 50 homers when he won the crown in 1938.
That means Judge will have the most home runs in a season by a player to win the batting title, ever.
Batting average isn't as popular as it once was. Other hitting metrics are viewed as more important.
Judge is the best at all the analytically advanced hitting metrics, too.
But it's cool in an old-school baseball sort of way to have Judge atop the batting charts with his average, too. The dude can really, really hit.
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