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New York Yankees’ Aaron Judge (99) hits a solo home run against the Atlanta Braves in the first … More inning of a baseball game, Sunday, July 20, 2025, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved Alex Rodriguez and Aaron Judge will always be linked together not for the way they achieved their lofty numbers but the timing of their stints in the last two-plus decades of Yankees history. Rodriguez’s final game with the Yankees was Aug. 12, 2016, about two weeks after he turned 41. It was his final game because of a massively declining bat that left him with a .200 batting average. When Rodriguez played his final game in 12 seasons with the Yankees, he finished his eventual time in the Bronx with 351 homers. Those were achieved in 1,509 games, 6,520 plate appearances and 5,557 at-bats. As Rodriguez was being celebrated for his career, Judge was playing in Triple-A and found out he was heading to the Yankees the next afternoon. After a long car ride, Judge homered in his first plate appearance and first at-bat. And other than injury interruptions in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2023, he has hardly stopped hitting home runs and his power eventually caught up to Rodriguez’s totals. Judge reached 350 homers last Saturday on the same day Matthew Boyd reached double-digit wins for the first time. He matched Rodriguez in his first at-bat Sunday when the Yankees played a clean game and left Atlanta with two wins after a disastrous return from the All-Star break. Judge reached Rodriguez’s home run total with the Yankees in his 1,092nd game. He is up to 351 homers in 3,928 at-bats, or once every 11.1 at-bats, compared to Rodriguez hitting a homer once every 15.8 at-bats with the…

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