Aaron Hicks is 27 years old. His MLB debut came on April 1, 2013. He hit his 40th career home run on Monday night for the Yankees.
Aaron Judge, Aaron Hicks, and Gary Sanchez hit their 40th career home runs in the same game
Same team, same game, all now have 40 home runs to their name.
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Gary Sanchez is 24 years old. His MLB debut came on Oct. 3, 2015. He hit his 40th career home run on Monday night for the Yankees.
Aaron Judge is 25 years old. His MLB debut came on Aug. 13, 2016. He hit his 40th career home run on Monday night for the Yankees.
Yes, the three Yankees who hit home runs in a 4-2 win over the Mets on Monday night each hit their 40th career home runs during the game despite having drastically different league debuts.
Hicks tied his previous season-high by hitting his 11th home run on Monday night, his last 11-homer season coming in 2015 with the Twins.
Judge and Sanchez also nearly hit their 40th home runs in the exact same amount of games as well. Sanchez did it in career game 139, the third-fastest in history, and Judge took 140 games to get there, so he’s the fourth-fastest in history.
They join Mark McGwire and Rudy York as the only players to have 40 home runs through their first 140 games.
Judge is in a much-talked about and analyzed slump at the moment, so it’s a testament to how good he’s been through this first career stretch that he’s still putting up such historic marks despite his offense slowing down over the last few weeks.
Two players hitting the same marks on the same night or in the same career game is one thing, but three teammates doing this during the same game? That’s some powerful baseball magic.
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