Sorry, Losers: Aaron Judge and Tyler Austin Only Needed One At Bat to Reach the Hall of Fame

The vast majority of Major League Baseball players spend years—decades, even—attempting to draw the attention of the Hall of Fame. Those players are losers. Freshly-minted Yankees sluggers Aaron Judge and Tyler Austin didn't waste time trying to earn a trip to Cooperstown; they made Cooperstown come to them. And it only took them one at bat apiece.

According to LoHud's Chad Jennings, the Baseball Hall of Fame has asked for the bats that Judge and Austin used to hit back-to-back dingers on Saturday afternoon. They were the first pair of teammates in Major League history to each homer in his first career at bat in the same game, let alone in consecutive at bats.

As you can see, baseball is not hard. The real challenge, at least for Austin, is finding the bat in question. He discarded it on Sunday after it broke:

"I didn't even see it after the game," he said. "I don't know where it is now or anything."

As for Judge, the 6'7", 275-pound man-monster is still using the now-famous piece of lumber, which he presumably fashioned himself by ripping up a tree trunk with his bare hands. The Hall of Fame can have it, eventually…

"Until it runs out of hits, basically," Judge said. "Either breaks or I just stop feeling good with it."

Judge's bat has shown no signs of running out of hits any time soon; he belted a second home run in Sunday's 12-3 loss and doubled in the Yankees' only run of the game in a 1-0 victory on Monday night. Per the Yankees' PR department, he is the first player in club history to record an extra-base hit in each of his first three Major League games.

And that is why bums like Derek Jeter and Jorge Posada have to wait their turns while Judge and Austin get escorted past the velvet rope at Cooperstown.

[LoHud]