NEW YORK -- Mike Trout simply can’t be stopped right now, and he made history in the Bronx with a historic showing in a four-game series at Yankee Stadium.
Trout crushed a solo homer in the seventh inning of Thursday's 11-4 win, giving him a homer in four straight games and five total in the series. He went deep twice in the opener as part of a multi-homer duel with fellow three-time AL MVP Award winner Aaron Judge, smacked a solo blast to start a string of three straight homers for the Angels on Tuesday and walloped an opposite-field shot on Wednesday.
Trout, an 11-time All-Star, became the first visiting player to homer on four straight days at any iteration of Yankee Stadium, as the only other player to homer in four straight games in a series at the Yankees is John Mayberry Sr. in 1972, which was over three days due to doubleheaders. Trout also homered in his last game at Yankee Stadium last year, so he joined Judge (August 2024) as the only players to homer in five straight games at the current Yankee Stadium since the place opened in 2009.
His five homers are also tied for the most ever in a series against the Yankees, as the only others to do so were George Bell (June 1980), Darrell Evans (September 1985) and Jimmie Foxx (June 1933), but none of those homers came in New York.
Trout’s latest blast was absolutely obliterated, as he connected on a 2-2 changeup at the bottom of the zone and sent it a projected 446 feet to left field with an exit velocity of 114.6 mph, per Statcast. It was his seventh of the year.
Trout, 34, has been on a hot streak since a slight change in his mechanics beginning on Friday in Cincinnati. Trout reverted to using a slight step back before swinging, much like he did at the end of last year when he finished the year on a tear.
The Yankees didn't want to see much more of it -- they intentionally walked Trout in the eighth inning, which set up a Jo Adell grand slam that put the game out of reach.