{"id":496028,"date":"2022-09-26T07:25:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T04:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/aaron-judges-mini-home-run-drought-proves-slugger-is-human\/"},"modified":"2022-09-26T07:25:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T04:25:58","slug":"aaron-judges-mini-home-run-drought-proves-slugger-is-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/aaron-judges-mini-home-run-drought-proves-slugger-is-human\/","title":{"rendered":"#Aaron Judge&#8217;s mini home run drought proves slugger is human"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 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-6a29a077bb92c\" 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-6a29a077bb92c\" 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-judges-mini-home-run-drought-proves-slugger-is-human\/#%E2%80%9CAaron_Judges_mini_home_run_drought_proves_slugger_is_human%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Aaron Judge&#8217;s mini home run drought proves slugger is human&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CAaron_Judges_mini_home_run_drought_proves_slugger_is_human%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Aaron Judge&#8217;s mini home run drought proves slugger is human&#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>With the previously perfect Yankees superstar Aaron Judge stuck on 60 home runs for five straight <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s now, the patient Judge and Maris families will all need to gather their vaccination cards and passports. The Judge Homer Anticipation Tour heads to Toronto for three games.<\/p>\n<p>This is not like Judge. The flyballs he was hitting before were clearing fences by 50 feet. Now, even when he hits them hard, they stop well short.<\/p>\n<p>The superman on the precipice of 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 (he leads all three categories now!) as well as the real, honest-to-goodness home run record hit a flyball 113 mph the other day, and it didn\u2019t even come close to leaving the yard. Teammates were stunned. Was it the wind? The cooler temperature? Divine intervention?<\/p>\n<p>A simpler explanation, and until now there was no hint of this, is that Judge may be human.<\/p>\n<p>When you\u2019re going for a real, honest-to-goodness home run record that\u2019s stood twice as long as you\u2019ve lived, you\u2019re going to press. And when all your family and friends flew across the country to be filmed witnessing it, you\u2019re going to press some more.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s human nature. And it turns out, Judge may be like the rest of us. A little anyway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost definitely he has been pressing,\u201d a National League scout said before Sunday night\u2019s game, which was called after six innings, a 2-0 Yankees victory that dropped their magic number to two. \u201cWith all his friends and family here, that puts a lot of pressure on him. Tough duty, but I\u2019m sure he\u2019s glad to be in it. He\u2019ll get it when he\u2019s not pressing or trying so hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/YANKEES.2.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Yankees\" class=\"wp-image-24003300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/YANKEES.2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/YANKEES.2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/YANKEES.2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Aaron Judge is still stuck on 60 home runs.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Jason Szenes<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Oh, he\u2019s going to get it, not just because there are 10 games left, and his longest drought of this magical season of his was nine. Better still, he seems very relaxed now.<\/p>\n<p>If I were a betting man, I\u2019d say he parks one soon. I\u2019d also bet he was just a bit tense about doing it at Yankee Stadium.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>The other explanation, promoted by a couple of Yankees, was that pitchers were avoiding throwing strikes. He did walk six times in the five games, but Red Sox starters Rich Hill and Nick Pivetta came after him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would not pitch around him. That wasn\u2019t an option,\u201d Hill said. \u201cI don\u2019t believe in it. Why we\u2019re here is for the competition. You put it on the line and risk failure every time. He\u2019s doing it as well. People are paying their hard-earned money and want to see Judge challenged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If he wound up a footnote to history, as Tracy Stallard did 61 years ago on Maris\u2019 historic 61st homer, so be it, Hill said.<\/p>\n<p>More likely, it was a rare <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>earance of nerves for the league\u2019s certain MVP. Even if you\u2019ve played through the pressure of your contract and your future all season, as he has, it\u2019s different when all eyes, and all cameras, are on you.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm\/?e=NYPH3597092757&amp;light=true\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The five-day mini \u201cslump\u201d through Saturday may be the first sign he isn\u2019t perfect, and it wasn\u2019t even a slump like most folks\u2019 slumps. He had a .476 on-base percentage during the five-game respite into reality. So if it wasn\u2019t Judge on a homer history tour, no one would have noticed.<\/p>\n<p>But folks close to the game did notice. And even though no Yankee would admit it, things seemed slightly off. One other baseball person detected a slight tilt in his swing skyward. Could he have been trying, subconsciously, for a long ball?<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/26S.judgemaris_web.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24003252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/26S.judgemaris_web.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/26S.judgemaris_web.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/26S.judgemaris_web.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Maybe. But something changed Sunday, when Judge was as joyous as ever. He signed autograph after autograph down the right-field line pregame. He looked like himself, which is to say he was having fun.<\/p>\n<p>Judge was back in the clubhouse pregame after a couple days away, and welcomed reporters one by one to ask him about the chase, his psyche, his nerves, anything. He did so with a smile, usually a wink, and sometimes a hand shake. He was back.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"673\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/YANKEES-1-1.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Aaron Judge stands in the Yankees dugout. \" class=\"wp-image-24003232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/YANKEES-1-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/YANKEES-1-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/YANKEES-1-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/YANKEES-1-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Aaron Judge stands in the Yankees dugout. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Jason Szenes<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/26s.JudgeTripleCrownGFX_web.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Aaron Judge\" class=\"wp-image-24003257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/26s.JudgeTripleCrownGFX_web.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/26s.JudgeTripleCrownGFX_web.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/26s.JudgeTripleCrownGFX_web.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Aaron Judge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yes, he\u2019s noticed all the noise. Sure, he\u2019s seen the umpires put the balls marked by history into play. Of course, he\u2019s observed the fans with their camera phones trained on him. He\u2019s probably even detected all the home folk in the box, waiting and wishing for history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not blind,\u201d he told The Post before flashing his trademark smile. \u201cI see them changing out the balls. When it comes down to it, you\u2019ve still got to compete and play the game. You can\u2019t really get caught up in all the noise. I\u2019ve been in this stadium \u2026 playoff games, people on their feet, late in games, high-pressure situations \u2026 It\u2019s just another day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, we would see about that.<\/p>\n<p>The game began, and he showed signs of being himself. He lined a double past the third-baseman to start off the Yankees first, and the crowd loved it, even though an at-bat was in effect wasted. He walked and flied out to center his next two at-bats.<\/p>\n<p>Then the rains came, and that wait began. The game was eventually called off, and the real wait \u2014 the one for history \u2014 continues.\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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