Aaron Judge Matches Babe Ruth With 14 Homers Through 35 Games
Aaron Judge matched babe ruth in MLB history on Monday night, reaching 14 home runs, 27 RBI, 27 walks and 32 runs through 35 team games. The Yankees hitter joined a club that had been reached only seven times before, and Ruth accounted for three of those starts.
Judge Joins Ruth’s Company
Judge homered on Monday night and moved to 14 home runs for the season. That put him in the same statistical lane as Babe Ruth, a comparison that now stretches across 1926, 1928 and 1930 for Ruth, then 1954 for Stan Musial, and 2006 for Albert Pujols and Jim Thome.
Only five players had ever reached that combination before Judge, according to Baseball Reference analyst Katie Sharp. The Yankees slugger became the seventh such case overall, and the first in 20 years.
Ruth, Musial, Schmidt
The list is short enough to read like a clean line from baseball’s record book. Ruth did it three times, while Musial, Mike Schmidt, Pujols and Thome each did it once, leaving Judge to match a mark that had been sitting untouched since 2006.
Judge’s numbers were not a one-night spike. Through 35 team games, he had piled up 14 homers, 27 RBI, 27 walks and 32 runs, a start that separates him from most hitters before the schedule even settles in.
Twentieth-Year Gap
The gap matters because it shows how few players can sustain that kind of production this early. Judge did not just hit for power on Monday night; he added to a pace that has now placed him beside Ruth and the rest of the game’s most efficient early-season bats.
For the Yankees, the immediate takeaway is simple: Judge is carrying an elite statistical start into the next stretch of games, with a place in the historical comparison already secured.
