New York Yankees’ Aaron Choose hits fiftieth residence run of season – NBC New York
New York Yankees slugger Aaron Choose hit his fiftieth homer of the season on Sunday, connecting within the first inning towards the Colorado Rockies.
Choose drove a 0-2 changeup from Austin Gomber into the visiting bullpen in left-center to present the Yankees a 2-1 lead. It was his 18th homer within the first this season, matching Alex Rodriguez in 2001 for the main league document.
Choose joined Rodriguez, Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire and Babe Ruth as the one gamers in main league historical past with three 50-homer seasons.
Rodriguez had a pair of 50-homer seasons for Texas in 2001 and 2002 and hit 54 for the Yankees in 2007.
Sosa had 4 straight 50-homer seasons from 1998 to 2001, McGwire did the identical from 1996 to 1999, together with his 70-homer season in in 1998. Ruth had back-to-back 50-homer seasons in 1920 and 1921 and 1927 and 1928 with the Yankees.
Ruth hit 60 homers in 1927, an AL document that stood till Roger Maris hit 61 in 1961 for the Yankees. Choose broke Maris’ single-season AL document by hitting 62 in 2022.
Two years in the past, Choose reached 50 in New York’s 129th sport when he went deep in Anaheim towards Angels reliever Ryan Tepera.
