ROOKIE JUDGE BREAKS MAC ’S BIG MARK

Aaron Judge broke Mark McGwire’s major league record for home runs by a rookie, hitting a pair for the second straight day to raise his total to 50 and lead the New York Yankees over the visiting Kansas City Royals 11- 3 on Monday. The 6- foot-7, 25- yearold slugger tied the mark with a two- run drive to right-centre off Jakob Junis (8-3) in the third inning, putting New York ahead 3- 0. His solo shot over the visitors’ bullpen in left against Trevor Cahill in the seventh made it 7- 3 and earned him a rare curtain call. Judge has 13 home runs in September and six in five games, and he is second in the majors behind Miami’s Giancarlo Stanton, who has 57. Judge has four multi-homer games this month and seven this season. McGwire hit 49 homers for Oakland in 1987, breaking the previous mark of 38 set by the Boston Braves’ Wally Berger in 1930 and matched by Cincinnati’s Frank Robinson in 1956.