The 52nd anniversary of Secretariat winning the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths to secure the Triple Crown was last week, and more than a half century later it remains the standard in sports used when the field is dominated.
Aaron Judge is doing a pretty good version of Secretariat in 2025. He is running away from his contemporaries and toward history.
He is not overwhelming in all the traditional Triple Crown categories. After his dramatic ninth-inning home run Friday night off of Boston’s Garrett Crochet, he led the AL or was tied for the lead in batting average, homers and RBIs.
But within the more modern “slash” Triple Crown, he is creating quite a distance to the runners-up (all stats were going into the weekend for qualified MLB hitters, not just one league or the other):
