Look, I know it’s helpful that Judge has driven in himself 60 times. But Judge headed into Thursday’s games leading in all three divisions of that club room. So he never had a shot at the 60-Homer Triple Crown Club. And the Triple Crown winner who hit the most homers in a season - Jimmie Foxx, in 1932 - hit his 58th in his final at-bat of the year. 350.Īnd that’s about it! Nobody else even made the top 10 in all three departments. But Bonds led the league in only homers, Sosa led in only RBIs, and neither was within 22 points of the batting champ, Larry Walker, who hit. That is not a sentence that has ever been typed before, because no 60-homer man has ever been in the race for one of those Triple Crowns.īabe Ruth, 1927 - Finished in the top seven in all three Triple Crown categories, but led in only one (homers, obviously) - and finished 42 points out in the batting average race.īarry Bonds and Sammy Sosa, 2001 - Both wound up in the top eight in all three categories. So let’s dig in and see which iconic names he can chase after he leaves Roger Maris behind.Ħ0-HOMER GUYS NEVER WEAR THE TRIPLE CROWN!Īlmost lost in the bedlam of Judge’s 60th homer Tuesday was this unfathomable footnote: His 60th homer just happened to be the hit that gave him control of the American League Triple Crown. If you take the time to look beyond the big 6-0, you know what you’ll find?Ī man having a season we can only compare to a handful of legends from the storybooks of yesteryear. And I’ve never been more relieved to be this wrong about anything.īut here’s a public service announcement from Weird and Wild World HQ: When you size up Judge and his season for the history books, don’t stop at that number 60. For a long time after the performance-enhancing drugs era, I thought that was impossible.
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