NEW YORK -- Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton belting homers in the same game? That formula usually seals a Yankees victory.
Including the postseason, the Yanks had won 53 of 60 games when the sluggers each go deep prior to Thursday. That makes for good odds, but it didn’t account for Mike Trout, who homered for a fourth consecutive game in the Yankees’ 11-4 loss to the Angels on Thursday afternoon at Yankee Stadium.
Former Yankee Oswald Peraza also homered and laced a game-tying RBI double off Max Fried as part of the Halos’ four-run sixth inning, which tilted the contest. Trout went deep in the seventh, spoiling Angel Chivilli’s Yankees debut with his fifth homer of the series.
The four-game set was made memorable by the show Judge and Trout put on, a pair of MVPs trading high-octane haymakers.
Judge sparked the offense by launching his fourth home run in four games and eighth of the season, connecting for a first-inning blast off Angels opener Brent Suter. It came off Judge’s bat at 105.1 mph.
It was the 89th first-inning homer of Judge’s career, which ranks third in franchise history behind Babe Ruth (123) and Mickey Mantle (103).
Stanton gave New York the lead in the third with his second homer of the season, a two-run shot that traveled a Statcast-projected 446 feet on its way to Monument Park. Stanton’s homer came off the bat at 111.1 mph.
The all-time record for most times homering in the same game as teammates (including postseason) belongs to Eddie Mathews and Henry Aaron of the Braves (76). Ruth and Lou Gehrig (75) are next.
After that, there is a trio of iconic sluggers Judge and Stanton could surpass as soon as this season. Willie McCovey/Willie Mays (68), Duke Snider/Gil Hodges (68) and Billy Williams/Ron Santo (64) are on deck.