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New York Yankees slugger Aaron Decide hit his 61st house run Wednesday, tying Roger Maris’ single-season American League house run file set in 1961.
The New York Yankees slugger crushed the record-tying house run within the seventh inning off Toronto Blue Jays’ Tim Mayza, sending it over the wall at Rogers Centre.
Maris set the AL file in 1961 whereas taking part in for the New York Yankees.
Decide, 30, has already matched Babe Ruth’s complete from over 90 years in the past and will nonetheless surpass Maris’ 61-year-old file, sealing his spot among the many all-time batting greats.
“I maintain saying again and again, Aaron Decide; everybody ought to simply watch and take discover,” Yankees head coach Aaron Boone stated final week after Decide hit his sixtieth house run. “I can say this as a result of I’ve lived this, and he’s proven this: he places his concentrate on being an incredible teammate and successful. He is aware of every little thing else will deal with itself.”
Following his sixtieth house run final Tuesday, Decide refused to place an excessive amount of consideration on his record-setting season.
He instructed reporters, “I haven’t actually been fascinated about numbers or stats and stuff like that,” Decide stated. “I’m going on the market attempting to assist my group win.”
Decide is the sixth participant in Main League historical past to hit at the least 60 house runs in a single season.
Decide is unlikely to succeed in the main league single-season file of 73 house runs, however many have brushed the file apart as a result of it’s at present held by Barry Bonds who – together with different gamers of that period – was embroiled in performance-enhancing drug scandals and allegedly used steroids. Bonds and Sammy Sosa have denied these allegations.
Decide disagrees, telling Sports activities Illustrated just lately: “Seventy-three is the file In my ebook. It doesn’t matter what folks need to say about that period of baseball, for me, they went on the market and hit 73 homers and 70 homers, and that to me is what the file is.”
