{"id":493940,"date":"2022-09-18T06:15:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T03:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/aaron-judge-keeps-focus-on-winning-during-historic-homer-chase\/"},"modified":"2022-09-18T06:15:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T03:15:51","slug":"aaron-judge-keeps-focus-on-winning-during-historic-homer-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/aaron-judge-keeps-focus-on-winning-during-historic-homer-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"#Aaron Judge keeps focus on winning during historic homer chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a373c4d8c5df\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a373c4d8c5df\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/aaron-judge-keeps-focus-on-winning-during-historic-homer-chase\/#%E2%80%9CAaron_Judge_keeps_focus_on_winning_during_historic_homer_chase%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Aaron Judge keeps focus on winning during historic homer chase&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CAaron_Judge_keeps_focus_on_winning_during_historic_homer_chase%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Aaron Judge keeps focus on winning during historic homer chase&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Jon-Heyman.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Jon Heyman\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Jon-Heyman.png 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Jon-Heyman.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Jon-Heyman.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Jon-Heyman.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>MILWAUKEE \u2014 Everyone around Aaron Judge has been marveling at what he\u2019s doing this season \u2014 everyone but Judge himself. He doesn\u2019t pause to reflect. He just keeps going, putting up numbers that may wind up in the record book.<\/p>\n<p>His teammates can hardly believe it. And why should they? No one has ever broken a home run record and won a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trip<\/a>le Crown in the same season, and both of those are there for Judge. A few more points on his batting average, with a few more homers sprinkled in and he\u2019d be the first.<\/p>\n<p>But while Judge\u2019s exploits are the talk of the Yankees clubhouse \u2014 interrupted only briefly to debate whether the team hotel, The Pfister, is filled with ghosts (a few do wonder) \u2014 he professes to be paying no attention to the chase, or to history. And with Judge, you believe him.<\/p>\n<p>You see him going the other way. You see him getting the big single when the Yankees need it. He\u2019s not stressing over the numbers, only over wins and losses. His hair remains intact, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just playing the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> I love. I\u2019ve never played the game for the stats, or to see how I line up in certain categories\u201d Judge told The Post after the Yankees lost to the Brewers in a thriller late Friday (and then followed that up with a 4-1 loss on Saturday night). \u201cI play to win. Having that mindset motivates me.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"622\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/Aaron-Judge-3-3.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Aaron Judge signs autographs for fans before the Yankees' 4-1 loss to the Brewers.\" class=\"wp-image-23907415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/Aaron-Judge-3-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/Aaron-Judge-3-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/Aaron-Judge-3-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/Aaron-Judge-3-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Aaron Judge signs autographs for fans before the Yankees\u2019 4-1 loss to the Brewers.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">N.Y. Post: Charles Wenzelberg<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>However he is doing it, it\u2019s working. He has been asked to played center field, a clear team weakness, and he has done it magnificently. He has been asked to bat leadoff, and he has become the largest leadoff hitter in big league history, and also one of the best, and he has done it without counsel or question. He has been asked to play every day, of course. Manager Aaron Boone admits he just can\u2019t give Judge a day off, not with the Yankees\u2019 once impenetrable lead in the AL East slipping. Judge does that, too. The idea Judge is the one who\u2019s injury prone is old <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>, and wrong.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"296\" height=\"705\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/18s.judge_.2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23907413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/18s.judge_.2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 296w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/18s.judge_.2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=148 148w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>A lineup without Judge, who didn\u2019t homer but still went 1-for-3 with a double and a walk in Saturday\u2019s loss, is unimaginable now. <\/p>\n<p>It helps that Giancarlo Stanton is back and well enough to hit, but Judge has proven he can do it alone if he has to. He\u2019s putting together one of the greatest individual seasons ever, and at times he has been doing it without real protection. None of the other Yankees is having a career year, and almost all of them have been ailing lately. That\u2019s a big part of the clubhouse chatter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you have Batman, you normally have Robin,\u201d said Josh Donaldson, who hit a solo homer in the Yankees\u2019 loss on Saturday. \u201cIf you don\u2019t get it done, the next guy will get it done. [Anthony] Rizzo and Big G [Stanton] have been pretty good all year, but they aren\u2019t having their most special years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Donaldson won his MVP with Toronto, he was in a lineup in which Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion hit 40 and 39 homers, respectively. Meanwhile, Judge has been naked in the Yankees lineup at times this season. The other productive Yankees stars all have been out at one time or another, and recently they were almost all out at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Rizzo was having a fine season before a backache and then headaches knocked him out; the Yankees are hoping he can return Sunday. Stanton is back to provide some protection. DJ LeMahieu is still working to return. It\u2019s as if there\u2019s a foot-injury epidemic going around the clubhouse.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/Aaron-Judge-13.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Aaron Judge points to the Yankees' dugout after hitting a double in the third inning of their loss to the Brewers. \" class=\"wp-image-23907421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/Aaron-Judge-13.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/Aaron-Judge-13.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/Aaron-Judge-13.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/Aaron-Judge-13.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Aaron Judge points to the Yankees\u2019 dugout after hitting a double in the third inning of their loss to the Brewers. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">N.Y. Post: Charles Wenzelberg<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No matter, Judge just seems to step up his game. Almost miraculously, the more the other guys have missed time, the more Judge has shouldered the load, and the better he has seemed to do. Opposing managers have only thought to intentionally walk Judge 17 times, but it\u2019s becoming a more frequent occurrence.<\/p>\n<p>Roger Maris, who famously lost clumps of hair as he chased Babe Ruth, had Mickey Mantle, an all-time great, batting behind him, which is why Maris received no intentional walks in his record 61-homer year in 1961. Maris also had the advantage of setting the record in an expansion year, when the pitching thinned, and offensive numbers blew up.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>Everything to know about Aaron Judge and his chase for the home run record: <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>This year it has been the opposite. With 57 home runs through Friday, Judge had 46 percent more home runs than the next-most productive slugger, the Phillies\u2019 Kyle Schwarber, who had 39 (Yordan Alvarez and Mike Trout were next in the AL with 36 apiece). It\u2019s not just teammates failing to stay within shouting distance. Judge\u2019s 1.102 OPS was easily the best in baseball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow dominant he\u2019s been this year, with all the talk about the dead ball, I can\u2019t recall that h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ening,\u201d Donaldson said.<\/p>\n<p>Judge isn\u2019t looking, and he\u2019s seeming not to care much about it. When it was pointed out to him that he has a shot at the batting title, and thus the Triple Crown, he mentioned that he had a ways to go to win the batting crown. Donaldson\u2019s old Twins teammate, Luis Arraez, was leading at .319 before Saturday, eight points higher than Judge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo need to think about that,\u201d Judge said. \u201cI\u2019ve got a job to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his mind, that is to help the Yankees win games, and that\u2019s it, nothing more and nothing less.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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