Yankees slugger Aaron Judge led off the nightcap with his American League-record 62nd home run and Gerrit Cole set the franchise single-season strikeouts record even as New York lost to the Rangers on Tuesday night for a doubleheader split.
Judge drove the third pitch of second game, a 1-1 slider from Rangers opener Jesus Tinoco, into the first row of seats in left field to end his long, tiring chase to break Roger Maris' AL mark that had stood since 1961.It was the 55th game in a row Judge had played since Aug. 5, and the only homer he had hit in the previous 13 games was No. 61 last Wednesday in Toronto. He went 1 for 5 with a single and scored the decisive run in the opener Tuesday.
Cole struck out nine, raising his major league-best total to 257. The right-hander had entered the game tied with the 248 strikeouts Ron Guidry had in 1978, when he was the AL Cy Young Award winner after going 25-3 with a 1.74 ERA. Cole passed Guidry when he struck out Rangers No. 2 batter Nathaniel Lowe in the first inning.
Taveras, whose base-running mistake ended Game 1, put Texas up 3-2 with his fifth homer. It came after Sam Huff reached on third baseman Josh Donaldson's fielding error.Higashioka's homer to straightaway center off reliever Brock Burke tin the eighth tied it at 4. Higashioka tied his career high of 10 homers, all from June 12 on. Judge followed with a line-drive single and eventually scored on Harrison Bader's single.
Aroldis Chapman worked a perfect seventh for the victory. Jonathan Loaisiga worked the ninth for his second save, allowing a single before a game-ending double play when Taveras mistakenly ran from second base on Marcus Semien's liner to right.
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