Aaron Judge is doing a pretty good version of Secretariat in 2025. He is running away from his contemporaries and toward history.

KANSAS CITY — It was about a week ago when Yankees captain Aaron Judge was approached by manager Aaron Boone about picking a day to sit out a game for the first time this season.

Aaron Judge is putting up numbers for the New York Yankees this season that, plainly, don't look real. After adding a ninth-inning, game-tying home run at Fenwa

On one hand, it is the easiest answer of all: almost certainly not. There is a reason why we are now 84 years past Ted Williams hitting .406 in 1941, and why that remains one of the last true Holy Grails of the sport. There is a reason why less than a handful of hitters have even given .400 a real run, and none since 1994.

New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge began the weekend hitting .390 with 26 home runs and 60 runs batted in in 68 games this season. In 10 seasons with the Yankees, Judge has hit 341 homers.

Former Mets GM Steve Phillips argued that Judge is on pace for the greatest single season by a Yankees hitter. Phillips believes that Aaron Judge even outshone Ruth’s legendary 1927 campaign and Roger Maris’s 61-homer 1961 season.

A game-tying solo home run in the ninth inning by Aaron Judge robbed Red Sox ace Garrett Crochet of his first win at Fenway Park.