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NEW YORK — Aaron Judge got one home run closer to Roger Maris, Gerrit Cole mowed down the Twins with 14 strikeouts and the decimated Yankees swept a doubleheader in the Bronx.

The slugger turned down a huge contract extension from the Yankees and bet on his own abilities. It looks like he made the right decision

Yankee seems squeaky-clean, so we can go ahead and call him the homer king if he passes Maris

In five weeks, we’ll be watching playoff baseball. Because of the new 12-team postseason format, this is the first year in which there will be four best-of-three Wild Card Series, two in the AL and two in the NL, as opposed to the single one-and-done game in each league. This…

Let’s look at how his season compares to the other players who were on similar homer paces entering September.

Roger Maris’s AL home run record is within reach.

The 42-year-old Cardinals slugger has returned to being one of MLB’s more productive hitters.

Crunching the numbers shows he falls well below greats such as Babe Ruth and Barry Bonds.

With September warming up in the bullpen, the surreal will soon flirt with reality. Paul Goldschmidt could accomplish something that hasn’t been done since the Great Depression.

Assad has a 2.66 ERA in Double-A and Triple-A combined this season.

The great slugger arrives with 692 career dingers, fifth on the all-time list, as a five-game series against the Cubs gets underway.