New York Yankees’ Aaron Judge blasts 56th, 57th home runs of season

BOSTON — New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge hit his major league-leading 56th and 57th home runs of the season on Tuesday night in a 7-6 win over the Boston Red Sox in 10 innings.

Judge, playing in New York’s 142nd game, is four from tying the American League record Roger Maris set with the Yankees in 1961.

Judge’s opposite-field solo drive to right field off Nick Pivetta in the sixth inning tied the score at 3-3. Xander Bogaerts answered on Boston’s next at-bat with his own solo shot to put the Red Sox back on top.

But Judge tied it again in the eighth, crushing a hanging slider from Garrett Whitlock over the Green Monster in left field.

Judge’s homers were his first in six games. It also marked the 10th multi-homer game of the season, one shy of the AL record Hank Greenberg set in 1938, and 26th of Judge’s career.

Judge now has 20 more home runs than anyone else in the majors; Philadelphia Phillies left fielder Kyle Schwarber is second with 37. According to Elias Sports Bureau, it’s the first time a player will finish a day with a lead of 20 or more home runs since the final day of the 1928 season, when Babe Ruth led Jim Bottomley and Hack Wilson by 23 homers; Ruth had 54, the others had 31.

Judge finished 3-for-4 on Tuesday, raising his batting average to .310. In addition to being first in the majors in homers, he has an MLB-best 123 RBIs, including 32 RBIs in his past 38 games.

New York, which came from behind three times, reopened a six-game AL East lead, its largest since Sept. 1.

Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.