Judge and Trout Both Go Deep Twice, Yankees Still Find a Way to Win

The baseball gods delivered pure drama on Monday night in the Bronx. Aaron Judge and Mike Trout, two of the most feared bats in baseball, both stepped into the spotlight and put on a slugfest for the ages. Judge homered twice to put the Yankees ahead. Trout answered with two of his own, including a blast in the eighth inning that bounced off the back wall behind the Angels' bullpen in left-center and gave Los Angeles a two-run lead. But this story wasn't over yet.

A Historic Night, Then Some

Here's what made this night truly special: according to STATS Perform, this was only the second time in 70 years that a pair of three-time MVPs each homered twice in the same game. The last time it happened? June 21, 1956, at Ebbets Field. Stan Musial went deep twice for the Cardinals. Roy Campanella hit a tying, three-run drive in the ninth for his second of the night. Don Zimmer followed with a walk-off single to lead Brooklyn over St. Louis 9-8.

Trout nearly made it three homers on the night. He flied out to Cody Bellinger in front of the center-field wall with the bases loaded in the fourth inning, right after the Angels had tied the score with four unearned runs off Caballero's error on Trout's leadoff grounder to shortstop.

The Hammer Blows

Judge's first home run left his bat at 116.2 mph and traveled 456 feet into the left-field bleachers. That was the hardest-hit home run of the entire season. The game itself featured seven home runs that traveled a total of 2,846 feet. The Yankees alone hit five of them.

Grisham and Trout each finished with five RBIs. Judge had three. When the smoke cleared, Judge, who has 374 career homers, moved one ahead of teammate Paul Goldschmidt on the all-time active list.

The Gut-Punch Finish

But the Yankees weren't done. In the ninth inning, Grisham hit his second home run of the evening and season to tie it up. Then came the wildest moment of all: Jose Caballero trotted home on Jordan Romano's game-ending wild pitch, giving New York a pulsating 11-10 win and snapping a five-game losing streak.

"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."

The Yankees had started strong at 8-2, but dropped five straight before Monday's thriller. They'd been 0-6 in one-run games before this comeback for the ages.

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