{"id":602885,"date":"2026-04-14T06:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T06:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/602885\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T06:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T06:42:08","slug":"mike-trout-vs-aaron-judge-turns-into-starry-slugfest-of-three-time-mvps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/602885\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Trout vs. Aaron Judge turns into starry slugfest of three-time MVPs"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Mike Trout<\/a> vs. Aaron Judge<\/a> transformed a baseball game into a heavyweight slugfest.<\/p>\n

Trout\u2019s second home run of the game bounced off the back wall behind the Angels bullpen in left-center, giving Los Angeles a two-run, eighth-inning lead on a night when Judge had homered twice to put the New York Yankees<\/a> ahead.<\/p>\n

Only there was more drama after a pair of three-time MVPs both homered twice in the same game for the first time in 70 years.<\/p>\n

Trent Grisham<\/a> hit his second home run of the evening \u2014 and season \u2014 to tie the score in the ninth inning. Jos\u00e9 Caballero trotted home on Jordan Romano<\/a>\u2019s game-ending wild pitch that gave the Yankees a pulsating 11-10 win Monday and stopped a five-game losing streak.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was great. That\u2019s baseball for you,\u201d Trout marveled. \u201cIt\u2019s what fans want, and to be able to see something like that, pretty cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

Only once before had a pair of players already three-time MVPs each homered twice in game, according to STATS Perform.<\/p>\n

After Stan Musial had gone deep twice, Roy Campanella hit a tying, three-run drive in the ninth for his second of the game and Don Zimmer followed with a walk-off single to lead the Brooklyn Dodgers over the St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> 9-8 at Ebbets FIeld on June 21, 1956.<\/p>\n

And Trout nearly hit a third. He flied out to Cody Bellinger<\/a> in front of the center-field wall, leaving the bases loaded in the fourth inning after the Angels tied the score 4-all with four unearned runs following Caballero\u2019s error on Trout\u2019s leadoff grounder to shortstop.<\/p>\n

Judge had looked forward to crossing paths with Trout in a Yankee Stadium weight room.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was going to talk some smack to him after the one he hit all the way to the warning track,\u201d Judge said, \u201cbut I didn\u2019t get a chance to and then he answers right back with two big homers for him. You put that guy in a clutch situation, a big moment and he\u2019s going to show up every single time, so it\u2019s fun going back and forth with a guy like that, especially in New York and the Bronx.\u201d<\/p>\n

New York had lost five straight after an 8-2 start and had been 0-6 in one-run games.<\/p>\n

There were seven home runs that traveled a total of 2,846 feet \u2014 more than half a mile \u2014 with the Yankees hitting five. Judge\u2019s first went 456 feet deep into the left-field bleachers and left the bat at 116.2 mph, the hardest-hit home run of the season. <\/p>\n

Grisham and Trout each had five RBIs, and Judge had three.<\/p>\n

Baseball\u2019s top four active home run leaders were all in the game. Judge, with 374, moved one ahead of teammate Paul Goldschmidt<\/a>. New York slugger Giancarlo Stanton<\/a>, who leads active players with 454, missed by about a foot with a double off the center-field wall in the fifth. Trout has 408 homers.<\/p>\n

Trout, 34, won AL MVPs in 2014, \u201916 and \u201919 but has struggled with injuries for much of the past five seasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s the greatest of all time. It\u2019s been fun to watch his whole career, coming up at such a young age and instantly just putting yourself at the top of the list. It\u2019s special,\u201d Judge said. <\/p>\n

Judge, who turns 34 on April 26, won AL MVPs in 2022, \u201824 and \u201925.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose are two of the greats, so it\u2019s really fun to watch,\u201d Yankees starter Will Warren<\/a> said.<\/p>\n

Judge and Caballero each hit a two-run homer off Yusei Kikuchi<\/a> for a 4-0 second-inning lead on an unseasonably warm 77-degree night. After Caballero\u2019s error led to the unearned runs off Warren, Grisham pinch hit in the fifth and connected for a three-run drive against Shaun Anderson<\/a> for a 7-4 lead.<\/p>\n

Trout countered with a three-run homer in the sixth against Jake Bird<\/a>, who was demoted to Triple-A after the game.<\/p>\n

Judge\u2019s homer off Anderson leading off the bottom half gave him 47 multi-homer games, one more than Mickey Mantle and trailing only Babe Ruth\u2019s 68 among Yankees.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be surrounded by some greats like that, it\u2019s special,\u201d Judge said.<\/p>\n

Josh Lowe<\/a> knotted the score at 8 with a seventh-inning sacrifice fly, and Trout\u2019s two-run drive in the eighth off Camilo Doval<\/a> put the Angels ahead 10-8 with his 31st multi-homer game. Judge, watching from right field, shook his head.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time he comes to the Bronx, man, he puts on a show,\u201d Judge said. \u201dI hate to see it, but it\u2019s fun competing against a guy like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jazz Chisholm Jr.<\/a> singled to start the ninth against Jordan Romano<\/a>, and Grisham reached down and pulled a slider into the right-field seats as the closer put both hands on his head.<\/p>\n

Caballero doubled and stole third without a throw. And after Austin Wells<\/a> walked, Caballero scored when Romano bounced a full-count slider to Ryan McMahon<\/a> to the backstop on the ninth pitch of the plate appearance.<\/p>\n

New York had not won a game while allowing double-digit runs since beating Minnesota 14-12 on July 23, 2019.<\/p>\n

Yankees manager Aaron Boone described his own feelings as \u201ctough … for the belly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then he switched his thoughts to his players.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou get a lead, then you get another lead, and then it\u2019s gone,\u201d he said. \u201cFor the guys, maybe it was good to have a game like that where it was a little messy.\u201d<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/p>\n

Ronald Blum, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Mike Trout vs. Aaron Judge transformed a baseball game into a heavyweight slugfest. Trout\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-602885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}