Apr 14, 2026, 01:57 AM ET<\/p>\n
NEW YORK — Mike Trout<\/a> vs. Aaron Judge<\/a> transformed a baseball game into a heavyweight slugfest.<\/p>\n Trout’s second home run of the game bounced off the back wall behind the Los Angeles Angels<\/a>‘ 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 the pair of three-time MVPs each 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 — and season — to tie the score in the ninth inning. Jose Caballero<\/a> trotted home on Jordan Romano<\/a>‘s game-ending wild pitch that gave the Yankees a pulsating 11-10 win<\/a> Monday and stopped a five-game losing streak.<\/p>\n “It was great. That’s baseball for you,” Trout said. “It’s what fans want, and to be able to see something like that, pretty cool.”<\/p>\n Only once before had a pair of three-time MVPs each homered twice in a 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 with four unearned runs following Caballero’s error on Trout’s leadoff grounder to shortstop.<\/p>\n Judge had looked forward to crossing paths with Trout in a Yankee Stadium weight room.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n “I was going to talk some smack to him after the one he hit all the way to the warning track,” Judge said, “but I didn’t 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’s going to show up every single time, so it’s fun going back and forth with a guy like that, especially in New York and the Bronx.”<\/p>\n New York had lost five straight after an 8-2 start and had been 0-6 in one-run games.<\/p>\n The game featured seven home runs that traveled a total of 2,846 feet — more than half a mile — with the Yankees hitting five. Judge’s first went 456 feet into the left-field bleachers and left his 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’s 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 a homer by about a foot and had to settle for a double off the center-field wall in the fifth. Trout has 408 homers.<\/p>\n Trout, 34, won AL MVPs in 2014, ’16 and ’19 but has struggled with injuries for much of the past five seasons.<\/p>\n “He’s the greatest of all time. It’s 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’s special,” Judge said.<\/p>\n Judge, who turns 34 on April 26, won AL MVPs in 2022, ’24 and ’25.<\/p>\n “Those are two of the greats, so it’s really fun to watch,” 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’s error led to the unearned runs off Warren, Grisham pinch hit in the fifth and connected on a three-run homer 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’s homer off Anderson to lead off the bottom of the sixth gave him 47 multihomer games, one more than Mickey Mantle and trailing only Babe Ruth’s 68 among Yankees.<\/p>\n “To be surrounded by some greats like that, it’s special,” Judge said.<\/p>\n Josh Lowe<\/a> knotted the score at 8-8 with a seventh-inning sacrifice fly, and Trout’s two-run drive in the eighth off Camilo Doval<\/a> put the Angels ahead 10-8 with his 31st multihomer game. Judge, watching from right field, shook his head.<\/p>\n “Every time he comes to the Bronx, man, he puts on a show,” Judge said. “I hate to see it, but it’s fun competing against a guy like that.”<\/p>\n Jazz Chisholm Jr<\/a>. singled to start the ninth against Romano, 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 feelings as “tough … for the belly.”<\/p>\n Then, he switched his thoughts to his players. “You get a lead, then you get another lead, and then it’s gone,” he said. “For the guys, maybe it was good to have a game like that where it was a little messy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 14, 2026, 01:57 AM ET NEW YORK — Mike Trout vs. Aaron Judge transformed a baseball game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-267163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}