This afternoon, 61 years to the day after Yankees slugger Roger Maris hit a record-breaking home run at Yankee Stadium, Aaron Judge had a chance to do the same. Same date. Same team. Same city. The baseball gods would decree, one would think, that it would have to happen today.
It didn’t happen. As poetic as baseball often is, sometimes things don’t work out exactly as scripted. And that’s just fine with the Orioles, who for the second straight day avoided becoming the victims of Judge’s AL record-breaking blast.
Judge, batting leadoff, got five cracks at it, though Orioles pitchers didn’t exactly give him a lot to hit.