We need to send him to a higher league. Even the strict coach is shocked, hitting the first 4060 home runs in Judge's history
Jun 11, 2025
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Judge led the Royals to a 10-2 victory in an away game against the Kansas City Royals at Kaufman Stadium on the 11th (Korea time), swinging two hits, three RBIs and one run from five times at bat, including a two-run home run.
With Judge at the forefront, the Yankees marked 40-25 and led the AL East.
Judge drew a large arch in his first at-bat with one out in the top of the first inning. In the two-ball, Noah Cameron's third pitch of the left-hander pulled a 94.3-mile fastball toward his body and drew an arch that flew well over the left fence and onto the roof of the Kansas City Hall of Fame building. It was his 24th home run of the season, with an angle of 31 degrees, a batting speed of 117.9 miles and a flying distance of 469 feet.
This season, he ranked third after Los Angeles Angels Mike Trout (484 feet) and Logan O'Harpy (470 feet) in distance. It is also Judge's longest home run this season. The previous record was 468 feet for a home run against the Milwaukee Brewers on March 30. It was the seventh furthest of Judge's career.
Yankees manager Aaron Boone's mouth just opened. Coach Boone "I stood up and tried to see how far the ball flew. It was really good to see. I was in a position where I could see the ball clearly, but it was a huge home run. "He seems to be playing in another league. It should be called up (to a higher league)." He said Major League Baseball is not his stage.
Director Boone then said, `The most surprising thing is that he's just doing well normally. I don't think he's really lit the fire at any point yet. I'm waiting for him to light it up," he said with a high praise. Judge hit a right-handed hit in the sixth inning and added an RBI single.
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He is still flying high with a .400 batting average. Judge, who has played in all 65 games played by the Yankees, will score 60 home runs, 145 RBIs and 157 runs if he maintains his current pace. He will hit another career high in 2022 when he hit the most 62 home runs in an AL season and last year when he won the home run-run title.
The last time a batter marked an OPS 1.2 or higher was in 2004, and Barry Bonds hit 1.422 that year. After 21 years, a batter with an OPS of 1.2 or higher could be born.
If Judge hits .400 and 60 home runs at the same time, it will be the first record in history. Rogers Hornsby (0.401) hit 42 home runs in 1922 and Babe Ruth (60) hit a batting average of 0.356 in 1927. Ruth also holds the record for batting average if he expands the range to hitters with more than 50 home runs in a season. In 1921, he hit 59 home runs and posted a batting average of 0.378.
Even if Judge does not achieve 400, he is likely to break the all-time batting average record for hitters with more than 50 home runs.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
