First, the New York Yankees will honor their most recent championship team from 2009, then the real intrigue will occur when Aaron Judge takes his next set of at-bats. Judge gets his first crack at hitting his major-league-best 50th homer and tying a career high by going deep for the fifth straight game when the Yankees host the Colorado Rockies on Saturday afternoon. After Alex Rodriguez takes part in his first Old-Timers' Day, joining Derek Jeter, Andy Pettitte, Jorge Posada and Mariano Rivera, Judge will attempt to continue his current hot streak.
He homered off Kyle Freeland in the sixth inning of the Yankees' 3-0 win on Friday, reaching 49 homers in New York's 129th game. Two years ago when he broke Roger Maris' single-season American League record by hitting 62, Judge hit his 50th homer in the Yankees' 129th contest. Judge, who also hit 52 as a rookie in 2017, is attempting to join Babe Ruth, Alex Rodriguez, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa as the fifth player with at least three 50-homer seasons.
Ruth, Sosa and McGwire each had four such campaigns. Judge, who became New York's first captain since Jeter after his historic season, has five homers in his past four games, seven in eight games and eight in 11 games. He also has 45 homers in his past 100 games and is hitting .
378 (133-for-352) in that span and .439 (18-for-41) during a season-high 11-game hitting streak. "It's hard to wrap your head around," Yankees manager Aaron Boone said.
"We talk about it a lot what he's doin.