Aaron Judge hits major league-leading 56th and 57th home runs to move four within the American League record as the New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox in extra-innings 7-6 win
- Aaron Judge hit his major league-leading 56th and 57th home runs Tuesday
- Judge is now four homeruns from tying Roger Maris’s American League record
- His two homeruns came in the sixth and eighth innings against the Red Sox
- The Yankees victory gives them a six-game lead in the American League East
Aaron Judge edged closer to the record books as he hit his major league-leading 56th and 57th home runs to help the New York Yankees hold on to beat the Boston Red Sox 7-6 on Tuesday night.
Judge, playing in New York´s 142nd game, is four from tying the American League home run record Roger Maris set with the Yankees in 1961.
After going homerless in five games, Judge had a pair of tying solo homers, off Nick Pivetta in the sixth and Garrett Whitlock in the eighth.
Aaron Judge hit his major league-leading 56th and 57th home runs against the Red Sox
Judge has 10th multi-homer games this season, one shy of the AL record Hank Greenberg set in 1938, and 26 in his career.
Judge’s three hits raised his average to .310, and he leads the major leagues in home runs and with 123 RBIs. Judge is hitting .310 with a 1.105 OPS. He has 32 RBIs in his last 38 games.
New York, which came from behind three times, reopened a six-game AL East lead, its largest since September 1.
Judge hits a single during the third inning of a game against the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday
The slugger celebrates with his Yankees teammates after scoring a run in the 10th inning
Gleyber Torres broke a 4-4 tie in the 10th against Jeurys Familia (2-3). He has eight RBIs in his last three games after getting just three in his previous 14.
Clay Holmes (6-3) hit Reese McGuire with a pitch and got one out in the 10th, and Alex Verdugo had an RBI single that put runners at the corners.
Xander Bogaerts popped out to shallow and Peralta bounced a fastball for a run-scoring wild pitch. Devers struck out Devers on the seventh pitch of the at-bat, his first slider of the night, for his fourth save.
Rookie Triston Casas, McGuire and Bogaerts homered for Boston, which has lost eight of 14 to the Yankees this season.
Gleyber Torres had a go-ahead three-run double in the 10th inning to help the Yankees hang on
Marwin Gonzalez hit the first of three tying homers for New York, a two-run drive in the third.
Pivetta allowed three runs and six hits in 5 1/3 innings, walked two and struck out five.
New York´s Gerrit Cole struck out 10 over six innings, but was tagged for all three of Boston´s home runs over six innings.
Casas hit his first home run at Fenway Park, and McGuire hit his first home run this season.
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