While a multi-home run game is a rare feat for most MLB players, Judge has made it as close to a calling card as any offensive player in the modern game will, doing it 41 times in his career, which Sarah Langs pointed out is already two more than any other player in their first 1,200 career games.

New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge blasted two home runs in a game against the Athletics. It was something the Athletics owner wished for.

There will be many firsts in West Sacramento now that the A’s have brought Major League Baseball temporarily to the capital region. For Yankees superstar Aaron Judge, the weekend marks the first time he’s playing professional baseball in the town in which he was born.

Only 45 miles away, Judge will be playing against the Athletics in the city where he was born for the first time.

With the Yankees trailing 6-5, A’s closer Mason Miller entered in the eighth with two on and one out and struck out two in a row to end the threat, first pinch-hitter Ben Rice and then Paul Goldschmidt.

Luis Severino spent years as Aaron Judge’s teammate on the New York Yankees, marveling at his prodigious power and skill as a hitter. Now