There’s no way around it: Yankees slugger Aaron Judge has completely owned MLB’s home run leaderboard in 2022. He’s run away with it in such a fashion that he now has something in common with Babe Ruth.
As the calendar flipped from August to September, Judge had a comfortable 15-homer lead over the next-closest slugger. That’d be Kyle Schwarber of the Phillies, who finished August with 36 homers of his own. This is just the sixth time ever that a player has had a lead of at least 15 dingers entering the regular season’s final month.