NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Judge homered twice and drove in three runs and Juan Soto hit a two-run homer in the first inning and drove in five to power the New York Yankees to an 8-1 rout over the Cleveland Guardians on Wednesday night.
Judge hit a two-run homer in the third and added a solo shot in the seventh, upping his major league-leading total to 47. Judge has six homers in his last nine games, 12 in his last 23 games and is on pace to hit 60 home runs.
Judge joined Babe Ruth and Roger Maris as the third player in team history to hit 47 homers in the first 127 games of a season. Ruth had 51 in 1921 when he finished with 59 and Maris had 50 at this point in 1961 when he hit 61 to break Ruth’s single-season record…