Cal Raleigh rewrote baseball’s history in the last two games. The Seattle Mariners’ Big Dumper tied and smashed Salvador Perez’s single-season home run record in a single day against the A’s with his 48th and 49th homer of the season on Sunday. And then he hit his 50th on the very next day on a J.P. Sears’s pitch on a 9-6 win against the Padres. And now, with 31 games left, a massive question looms: Is Aaron Judge’s American League record of 62 home runs safe?

Aaron Judge , the man who set that record, is well aware of the chase. “Cal Raleigh is a great guy and a great ambassador for the game,’ ’ Judge said. “I love watching him do his thing.” But don’t mistake that respect for support. As the Yankees are just half a game ahead of Seattle, Judge is focused on winning, not records.

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