The New York Yankees made MLB history on Saturday, hitting home runs on the first pitch from each of their first three batters. Paul Goldschmidt, Cody Bellinger, and Aaron Judge each launched a homer off the first pitch they saw from Milwaukee pitcher Nestor Corales, a former Yankee.
Austin Wells added a two-out homer, marking the Yankees’ first four-homer inning since their inaugural season in 1903. In total, the Yankees set a team record with nine home runs, defeating the Brewers 20-9 at Yankee Stadium.
Oswald Peraza, coming off the bench in the seventh inning, hit a two-run home run, setting a new franchise record for most homers in a game, surpassing the previous mark of eight, set in 1939 against the Philadelphia Athletics and matched in 2007 against the Chicago White Sox.
This historic performance saw the Yankees become just the third team in MLB history to hit nine homers in a single game. Toronto set the MLB record with 10 homers against Baltimore in 1987, and Cincinnati hit nine against Philadelphia in 1999.
Goldschmidt, Bellinger, and Judge also made history as the first Yankees trio to hit back-to-back-to-back home runs to start a game.
Judge wasn’t done, adding a grand slam in the third inning off Brewers relief pitcher Connor Thomas and a two-run homer in the fourth, pushing the Yankees to an 18-6 lead through six innings.
Aaron Judge
Judge became only the fourth Yankee to hit three homers in three or more games, joining Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, and Alex Rodriguez. Gehrig still holds the record for the only four-homer game in Yankees history, set in 1932 against Philadelphia.
Goldschmidt, a former Arizona standout who played with St. Louis from 2019-2024, and Bellinger, a former Dodger traded to the Yankees last December from the Cubs, each hit their first home runs as Yankees.
Cortes, who was traded to Milwaukee last December, had previously been part of the Yankees before the team sent him to the Brewers in exchange for pitcher Devin Williams.
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