It doesn't get better than that.
Yankees’ Aaron Judge joins Ruth, Gehrig, Mantle in special New York franchise home run history originally appeared on The Sporting News
Babe Ruth. Lou Gehrig. Mickey Mantle.
And Aaron Judge.
That's about as impressive a list of hitters as you could find anywhere in MLB history. Of course, that quartet is made up of New York Yankees, and they're now joined in franchise history.
Those are the four players who have had at least four 40-homer seasons in their careers in the Bronx.
Ruth had an absurd 11. Gehrig had five. Mantle had four.
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And now Judge has four.
Aaron Judge joins Babe Ruth (11), Lou Gehrig (5) and Mickey Mantle (4) as the only @Yankees with four 40+ HR seasons. pic.twitter.com/rpf58zooj6
— MLB (@MLB) August 20, 2025
Judge reached the mark on Tuesday night against the Tampa Bay Rays.
A rain delay clearly didn't bother Judge. The game started about two hours later, but right away in the first inning, Judge left the building.
A pitch hung up and he clobbered it to dead-center in the temporary ballpark the Rays are currently in, which is also the Yankees' spring training stadium.
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Judge homered just before Cody Bellinger and Giancarlo Stanton went deep in the first, three former MVPs all connecting before the Rays could even come to bat.
For Judge, it meant a place among the game's elites.
There are almost always ways at this point to put Judge among those all-time great Yankees. He hits so well that it's like he's from a bygone era when those legends of the game were pretty much unstoppable.
Now, Judge is a living, active legend of the game. There's no one quite like him. And he keeps proving it every time he leaves the yard.
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