He has tracked down Roger Maris with homer No. 61, and New York Yankees star Aaron Judge is still chasing a Triple Crown.
The hallowed baseball achievement is reached when a hitter leads his league, AL or NL, in batting average, home runs and RBIs in the same season. Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera won MLB's last Triple Crown in 2012, breaking a decades-long drought that had stretched since Carl Yastrzemski did it for the Boston Red Sox in 1967.
For much of the summer, the preeminent 2022 Triple Crown threat appeared to be St.