NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Judge put himself in some rare company while lifting the New York Yankees into a share of the AL East lead for the first time in 3 1/2 months. Judge became just the fourth player to reach 50 home runs four times and, just like last year, he followed by hitting No. 51 in the same game.

“If you sit back and admire it, then you’re going to stop your momentum,” Judge said after he drove in four runs to lead the Yankees over the Chicago White Sox 8-1 on Wednesday night. “Hopefully I have a long career here and we do some special things that we can talk about at the end.” New York (90-68) has won seven of eight, moving a season-high 22 games over .500 and getting to 90 wins for the seventh time in the last eight full seasons. The Yankees, who hadn't been in first place sin

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