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Aaron Judge Breaks Strikeout Record and Weaver Retires

On August 16, New York Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge broke the Major League record for most consecutive games with a strikeout. He struck out in his 33rd consecutive game. On the season, Judge has 159 strikeouts. Jered Weaver called it quits as well. He finished his 12 year career with the Padres, but spent his first 11 seasons with the Los Angeles Angels.

News Around the League

Since the All-Star break, many things have happened. Rangers’ third baseman Adrian Beltre collected his 3,000th hit, Yankees OF Brett Gardner hit a walk off home run and a walk off single in three games, Rays’ Evan Longoria hit for the cycle becoming the second player in franchise history to complete this feat, and Edinson Volquez went down for the year with Tommy John surgery. Also, the Yankees made a lot of moves in their race to the postseason. They acquired pitcher Sonny Gray from the Athletics, Todd Frazier, Tommy Kahnle, and David Robertson from the White Sox. Yu Darvish went from the Rangers to the Dodgers, and the Rockies got Jonathon Lucroy.