‘Aaron Judge is him’: Baseball world explodes as Yankees slugger tops 40-homer mark

New York Yankees' Aaron Judge celebrates after his two-run home run during the third inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles, Sunday, July 24, 2022, in Baltimore. (Nick Wass/AP)

Yawn. Just another day at the office for Aaron Judge.

In Friday’s very typical outing against the Kansas City Royals, the New York Yankees star launched his 40th homer of the year, a two-run shot, some 449 feet in the third inning, before belting a grand slam into the right-field bleachers in the bottom of the eighth.

His first home run of the night made him the first player to hit 40 homers before August since Barry Bonds and Luis Gonzalez did it in 2001.

His second broke the Yankees’ record for most multi-home run games in a season (Judge and the AL-leading Yanks still have 61 games to go, by the way).

Predictably, he also walked off the Royals on Thursday and reached over the fence to steal a home run from MJ Melendez at the start of Friday’s game. Run of the mill.

Despite the amazing regularity with which Judge is pulling these superhero exploits, social media was dumbfounded at Friday’s performance:

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