On the second to last day of the regular season, Aaron Judge passed Roger Maris for the all-time single-season American League home run record. The Triple Crown, though, will have to wait.
Judge sat out the Yankees’ season finale against the Rangers on Wednesday, thus ending the year with a .311 batting average. Minnesota’s Luis Arraez came into the day with a .315 mark, then went 1-for-1 with two walks to raise it to .316 in the Twins’ 10-1 win over the White Sox. That prevented Judge from becoming the first player to win the Triple Crown since Miguel Cabrera in 2012 and just the second since 1967.