I get that is is the most for an NL team, but 62 only gets him to 7th all time for the MLB as a whole. Sure, the 73 by Bonds is suspect, but this is 11 less.
Is it because this is the first time someone has eclipsed 60 HRs since 2001? Is it because he’s part of the Yankees? Is it because he is probably not on “the juice?” The wall to wall coverage is just ridiculous on ESPN. Is it just because ESPN has nothing else to report on and they need to invent “history making” like this to get attention for their floundering network?
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Baseball is HUGE about statistics and numbers, its a big part of the game for players and fans, now and for a 100+ years of the game. Numbers matter and we keep great records of them. Fans can probably recite to you random player numbers from their careers by heart, especially the notable ones. Baseball cares a lot about numbers.
60 HRs in a season is a astronomical number. 30 in a season is fantastic, done by top hitters. 40 is epic… 60, absolutely insane and puts it among the greatest hitting performances in the history of the sport.
But Judge’s is a bit different. IT very much matters that he’s not on steroids. ALL of the people above him are widely considered to have been on roids and cheated and there is much debate on if those people’s records really count. Many baseball fans completely throw them out of the conversation.
So for clean players: Judge is now #1 in that regard, and the record at 61 stood for 61 years (from 1961 until now). He just broke a 61 year old record in a sport that is really big about this record, it one of the most important records in baseball history. Before Roger Maris hit 61, Babe Ruth held the record at 60 which was done in 1927.
That means in almost 100 years of baseball, the amount of HRs for a clean player in a season has been nearly the same. And Judge just beat it. And the people he beat are absolute legends of the game.
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