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The first half of the MLB season did not disappoint thanks to Cal Raleigh, Aaron Judge, Shohei Ohtani and others. But this is where the real fun begins.
Yankees superstar Aaron Judge is in a home run flurry that has rarely been seen in MLB history. Through his age-29 season, he had 158 career home runs and on Saturday, at age 33, he hit his 350th career home run.
The New York Yankees' Aaron Judge needed 1,088 games to hit his 350th homer. Former slugger Mark McGwire reached the milestone in his 1,280th game.
Aaron Judge crushes the 350th home run of his career and breaks his 2024 Yankees record of most homers before the All-Star break
With chants of “MVP” from the Stadium crowd still echoing, Judge made almost as good a catch on the next play, as he raced in and made a diving play on Dansby Swanson’s sinking liner for the final out of the inning.
Bad news for some fans hoping to see Aaron Judge in the Home Run Derby — one of the most anticipated sluggers won't be taking part, but he has a pretty solid reason for sitting this one out.