Aug 20, 2025, 04:36 AM ET<\/p>\n
TAMPA, Fla. — Giancarlo Stanton<\/a> and Cody Bellinger<\/a> each hit two home runs, Aaron Judge<\/a> launched his 40th shot of the season and the New York Yankees<\/a> matched a franchise record with nine long balls Tuesday night in a convincing 13-3 victory<\/a> over the Tampa Bay Rays<\/a>.<\/p>\n Judge, Bellinger and Stanton went back-to-back-to-back in the first inning to give the Yankees — who also hit nine homers during a win in March — a 3-0 lead four batters into the game, after the first pitch was delayed nearly two hours by rain.<\/p>\n Jose Caballero<\/a> also connected twice in his first game back at George M. Steinbrenner Field for his first career multihomer game. Jazz Chisholm Jr.<\/a> and Ben Rice<\/a> also went deep for the Yankees, who won their fourth straight and looked awfully comfortable in a road game at their spring training home, where the Rays are playing while Tropicana Field undergoes repairs.<\/p>\n “I think it’s from hanging around with these guys,” said Caballero, who hit two home runs in 86 games with the Rays this season and matched that total in one night.<\/p>\n The Yankees became the first team in MLB history with multiple nine-homer games in a single season, according to ESPN Research. (New York also smacked nine in its second game, a 20-9 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> on March 29 at Yankee Stadium.) And Tuesday’s team total tied the single-game franchise high reached three other times.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n “It was awesome to see,” Stanton said during his postgame interview on the YES Network. “It was incredible across the board.”<\/p>\n Stanton, Bellinger and Caballero became the second Yankees trio with multiple homers in the same game in franchise history, per ESPN Research, tying a feat pulled off by Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris and Bill Skowron on May 30, 1961, against the Boston Red Sox<\/a>.<\/p>\n “I think we were all ready to go at 7:30 [p.m.],” Stanton said, referring to the rain delay. “And then it didn’t happen, so we had to take it out on [the Rays] a little bit. But just make sure we were focused and get a win out of tonight.”<\/p>\n It was only the fourth time a big league team has hit nine or more homers in a game. The record is 10, set by the Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> on Sept. 14, 1987.<\/p>\n “It was impressive,” New York manager Aaron Boone said. “Great swings right out of the gate to give us a lead.”<\/p>\n Bellinger went 4-for-5 with three RBIs, as the Yankees maintained a one-game lead over the Seattle Mariners<\/a> and the Red Sox for the top spot in the American League wild-card race.<\/p>\n “To do it twice, that’s remarkable,” Boone said of the season’s nine-homer feats. “And there were some ones [tonight] that were seriously hit. Just a really impressive offensive showing against a team that obviously is not always easy to score runs against.”<\/p>\n