"Before that blast, he had gone more than twenty at-bats without hitting a home run. His performance up to that point had been dismal, swelling murmurs that he wasn't built for playoff baseball—that he couldn't do it when it counted."
"Judge has spent the past couple of years chasing them; more recently, he'd seemed haunted by them... 'If you don't win, what's the point?'"
"He'd had one of the greatest offensive regular seasons in major-league history. During a hundred-game stretch this season, he hit .378 at the plate with forty-five home runs."
"According to another advanced metric, he’d had the seventh-best offensive season in history—behind only Babe Ruth, Barry Bonds, and Ted Williams—and the best ever for a right-hander."
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