NEW YORK — Boom! Boom! Boom! Three home runs on the first three pitches.
Aaron Judge followed Paul Goldschmidt and Cody Bellinger to combine for unprecedented fireworks Saturday, starting one of the most memorable days of Judge’s already indelible career.
“It was electric, from the stadium crowd to just the guys in the dugout locked in and fired up,” Judge said after homering three times, including a grand slam, and setting a career high with eight RBIs in the New York Yankees’ 20-9 rout of the Milwaukee Brewers.
Major League Baseball said this was the first time a team homered on its first three pitches since tracking of pitch counts began in 1988.
Before the game, Yankees manager Aaron Boone saw Reggie Jackson, who hit three home runs on three pitches in Game 6 of the 1977 World Series.