Aaron Judge hit two home runs on Wednesday night to get to 51 for the season, and in the process, he joined a bunch of record lists.
Most of those involved others. There were a couple on which he joined Babe Ruth. And there's the now four-player club of guys who have hit 50 home runs in four different seasons.
But one mark Judge reached by surpassing 50 home runs is all his own.
Baseball Reference's Katie Sharp shared this stat: Judge is the only player in MLB history to have three seasons in which he hit both 50 or more home runs and stole double-digit bases.
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Sure, the home runs are still the headline there.
But the 10-plus steals show Judge looks for other ways to help his team win ballgames, even when he isn't hitting the ball out of the ballpark.
And it's a cool feat at 6-foot-7 and upwards of 280 pounds.
The other three players who hit 50 homers four times in a season are Babe Ruth, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. None of them were known as much of running threats at all, except for early-career Sosa before the power had come on in earnest.
That lets Judge stand just a little bit alone (and that's not to mention the chances he'll get to be the first player to ever hit 50 homers in five seasons).
Judge, when healthy, is a great outfielder, too, with a superb arm. And his speed on the bases goes mostly unnoticed but matters, too. He's just a special ballplayer.
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