Aaron Decide goes for house run No. 62: Yankees-Orioles stay updates as slugger tries to make historical past at house

Aaron Decide is making an attempt to hit a record-setting house run Sunday because the Yankees host the Orioles of their remaining regular-season house recreation of 2022. Decide enters Sunday with 61 house runs, tied with Roger Maris for essentially the most in a single season in Yankees and American League historical past. Decide is one among simply six MLB gamers to hit 60 or extra house runs in a season, and his subsequent house run will give him sole possession of the AL report.

Decide hit No. 61 on Wednesday evening in opposition to the Blue Jays in Toronto to tie Maris. He is gone 1 for 4 with 5 walks (one intentional) in 9 plate appearances within the first two video games of the collection in opposition to the Orioles. Decide is in a house run drought (by his 2022 requirements) since hitting No. 60 on Sept. 20. In 10 video games since, Decide has homered as soon as, and is hitting .259 with 19 walks and a .556 on-base share in 45 plate appearances.

Most single-season house runs, American League
T1. Aaron Decide, 61, 2022
T1. Roger Maris, 61, 1961
3. Babe Ruth, 60, 1927
T4. Hank Greenberg, 58, 1938
T4. Jimmie Foxx, 58, 1932
6. Alex Rodriguez, 57, 2002

The Yankees are hoping to get Sunday’s recreation in round a wet forecast and provides Decide an opportunity to make historical past at house earlier than the staff travels to face the Rangers in its remaining collection of the 2022 common season. So can Decide get 62 on Sunday? Comply with alongside beneath for stay updates, highlights and extra.