Aaron Judge breaks American League home run record with 62nd homer of the season
CBSN
New York Yankees star Aaron Judge hit his 62nd home run of the season Tuesday, breaking the single-season American League record of 61 which was set 61 years earlier in 1961 by Roger Maris, also of the Yankees.
Judge's record-breaking homer came in the first inning against the Texas Rangers' Jesus Tinoco. The leadoff shot to deep left field gave the Yankees an early 1-0 lead.
The normally reserved All-Star had recently begun to show signs of frustration as he failed to break the record for several games, going 1-5 in the first game of Tuesday's doubleheader. After earlier in the year being on pace to shatter the record, Judge stalled at 60, and then again at 61. All that time, other sports networks were breaking into their normal programming to show Judge's at-bats, waiting for the record-breaker.
