NEW YORK — Yankees slugger Aaron Decide hit his fiftieth and 51st residence runs of the season Sunday in a 10-3 win over the Colorado Rockies, placing him on tempo to interrupt his personal American League residence run file.
House run No. 50 got here off a 0-2 changeup from Austin Gomber within the first inning; it was Decide’s 18th homer within the first inning this season, matching Alex Rodriguez (2001) for the key league file.
Decide hit No. 51 within the seventh inning, following a solo homer from Juan Soto. Giancarlo Stanton homered within the subsequent at-bat because the sluggers went back-to-back-to-back to present New York a 7-3 lead.
Decide, who flew out within the second and walked within the fifth, took a curtain name after his second residence run.
“I did not need to come out till [manager Aaron Boone] instructed me,” Decide mentioned. “He form of gave me the look and the nod, so I went on the market. The followers are pumped up. We form of hit a lull there within the recreation. We scored, had the lead, they form of got here again. They had been down one for some time and for us to blow up there for a few runs, the followers had been pumped up.”
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It was the Decide’s thirty ninth profession multihomer recreation and fifth this season. The Yankees captain has seven homers in his final six video games, 10 in his final 13 and 47 in his final 102.
“It is unreal,” Stanton mentioned. “He does one thing particular day-after-day.”
The 2 homers Sunday put Decide on tempo to hit 63 this season, which might break his AL file of 62 set in 2022. Decide first reached the 50-homer threshold in his rookie yr in 2017, when had 52.
Decide additionally grew to become simply the fifth participant to hit 50 residence runs in three totally different seasons, becoming a member of Rodriguez, Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire and Babe Ruth.
“An ideal accomplishment however there’s nonetheless extra to be finished,” Decide mentioned. “This staff’s received an enormous mission in entrance of them and we’re all targeted on that proper now.”
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 1998. Ruth had back-to-back 50-homer seasons in 1920 and 1921 and 1927 and 1928 with the Yankees.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
