{"id":60839,"date":"2025-07-12T23:51:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T23:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/60839\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T23:51:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T23:51:16","slug":"judge-becomes-fastest-to-350-homers-reaching-in-192-games-fewer-than-mcgwire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/60839\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge becomes fastest to 350 homers, reaching in 192 games fewer than McGwire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Aaron Judge didn\u2019t just become the fastest player to hit 350 home runs, he did it in 192 fewer games than Mark McGwire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just think he\u2019s playing in a different league,\u201d Yankees manager Aaron Boone said after Judge\u2019s ninth-inning drive in Saturday\u2019s <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/yankees-cubs-score-826c0f4ea5e4c2e1b3fb2f120c47c62c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5-2 loss to the Chicago Cubs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Judge homered to right-center on a high 0-2 fastball from Brad Keller, a two-run shot a couple of rows into the right-center field seats.<\/p>\n<p>He reached 350 in his 1,088th game. McGwire hit No. 350 in his 1,280th game, against Detroit\u2019s Brian Moehler on June 2, 1997, bettering Harmon Killebrew in his 1,319th game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBig Mac did a lot of great things in this game, and he\u2019s definitely a legend,\u201d Judge said.<\/p>\n<p>Judge, who turned 33 in April, debuted with the Yankees at age 24 in 2016. The two-time AL MVP also doubled twice and is hitting a major league-leading .358 with 35 homers and 81 RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWould have been great if we got a win today,\u201d Judge said. \u201cI\u2019ve been surrounded by a lot of great teammates, been on some good teams, so they really put me in the best position to go out there and perform at my best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McGwire finished in 2001 at age 38 with 583 homers, currently 11th on the career list. He admitted in 2010 he used performance-enhancing drugs and has been denied entry to baseball\u2019s Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees captain has spoken with McGwire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it started with when I broke my first rib,\u201d Judge said. \u201cI think his son was kind of going through the same thing, so he was first asking me how did I heal? What do we do? So I kind of gave him some tips on that. And then we just kind of chit-chatted a little bit and kept in contact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Aaron Judge didn\u2019t just become the fastest player to hit 350 home runs, he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2226,3090,591,5607,43958,1271,1449,6611,1266,1822,405,403,404,2228,406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-60839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-aaron-boone","9":"tag-aaron-judge","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-brad-keller","12":"tag-brian-moehler","13":"tag-chicago-cubs","14":"tag-detroit","15":"tag-mark-mcgwire","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-mlb-baseball","18":"tag-new-york","19":"tag-new-york-city","20":"tag-new-york-city-wire","21":"tag-new-york-yankees","22":"tag-ny-state-wire","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114842952340782731","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}