the Yankees drilled back-to-back-to-back home runs in the first inning<\/a> off the bats of Judge, Bellinger and Stanton.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe Yankees joined the 2024 Dodgers and 1982 Brewers as the only teams to hit back-to-back-to-back homers at least three times in one season, according to Stathead\u2019s Katie Sharp. <\/p>\n
The other two times the Yankees have done it this season came on March 29 against the Brewers (when it was back-to-back-to-back-to-back) and April 29 against the Orioles. Judge was involved in all three while Bellinger took part in two.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a really good offense,\u201d said Bellinger, who also had a four-hit night. \u201cEbbs and flows of the 162-game season, it\u2019s not always going to be pretty. But we all believe in each other and you know the talent\u2019s there. We\u2019re doing a good job of putting it all together. It\u2019s been fun to be a part of.\u201d<\/p>\n
Judge\u2019s 429-foot blast on Tuesday was his 40th home run of the season, marking the fourth different season in which he has hit that milestone.<\/p>\n
Jose Caballero celebrates with Aaron Judge after belting his second homer of the game in the ninth inning of the Yankees\u2019 blowout win over the Rays. AP<\/p>\n
He became just the fourth player in Yankees history to do so, joining Babe Ruth (11), Lou Gehrig (five) and Mickey Mantle (four) \u2014 with Judge being the only one in that group to accomplish the feat in his first 10 seasons.<\/p>\n
Stanton was playing right field for the first time since last Wednesday \u2014 after sitting out the weekend series against the Cardinals with lower-body soreness from playing the field three straight games \u2014 so the Yankees could get his bat in the lineup. <\/p>\n
That proved prescient as Stanton remained red-hot, having now clobbered 13 home runs in his last 29 games.<\/p>\n
Aaron Judge belts his 40th homer of the season, a solo shot, in the first inning of the Yankees\u2019 blowout win over the Rays. AP<\/p>\n
After the first-inning barrage, Caballero added his first home run as a Yankee in the second inning to go up 5-0 against his former team before Chisholm\u2019s solo shot made it 6-2 in the third.<\/p>\n
Stanton\u2019s second blast was a three-run shot in the fourth inning and Rice went back-to-back with him to push the lead to 10-2. <\/p>\n
Bellinger then went yard again for a two-run shot in the sixth before Caballero finished it off in the ninth with a solo shot.<\/p>\n
Jazz Chisholm belts one of the Yankees\u2019 nine home runs in their blowout win over the Rays. Getty Images<\/p>\n
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All of it was more than enough run support for Carlos Rod\u00f3n, who grinded through the humidity to deliver six innings of two-run ball. <\/p>\n
That was not always a given on a night when he had already started to warm up before the rain delay \u2014 he was just about to get on the bullpen mound when the tarp was rolled out \u2014 but he remained locked in to provide some length.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s part of it,\u201d Rod\u00f3n said. \u201cWe got to get this game in. It\u2019s just part of the way we do things. Roll with the punches. \u2026 Once again, [the offense] made it easy.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA \u2014 It is once again time to embark on another 72-hour craze over the legitimacy of the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":160978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3090,58813,10624,10626,1266,2228,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-160977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-aaron-judge","9":"tag-ben-rice","10":"tag-cody-bellinger","11":"tag-giancarlo-stanton","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-new-york-yankees","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115060876920294177","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}