Aaron Judge hit 62 home runs in 2022 to set the American League single-season record. He hit No. 62 on October 4, 2022, against the Texas Rangers, surpassing Roger Maris’s AL mark of 61, which had stood since 1961.
Judge’s chase became one of baseball’s defining stories of the season. He hit his 60th homer on September 20, tied Maris with No. 61 on September 28, and broke the record six days later. He finished the regular season with 62 home runs, 131 runs batted in and a .311 batting average.
The number can cause confusion because 62 is not the all-time MLB single-season record. Barry Bonds holds that mark with 73 home runs in 2001, while Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa also exceeded 62 during the late-1990s and early-2000s home-run era. Judge’s achievement was specifically the American League record.