The New York Yankees performed House Run Derby at their dwelling away from dwelling Tuesday evening. The Yankees tied a franchise report with 9 dwelling runs towards the Tampa Bay Rays (NY 13, TB 3) at George M. Steinbrenner Area, their spring coaching dwelling the place the Rays are enjoying this season after Tropicana Area sustained hurricane harm. New York additionally hit 9 homers on March 29. These are the one two nine-homer video games in franchise historical past.
Aaron Choose, Cody Bellinger, and Giancarlo Stanton slugged back-to-back-to-back homers within the first inning. Bellinger and Stanton every hit a second dwelling run later within the sport, and former Ray José Caballero went deep twice as effectively. These have been his first two dwelling runs as a Yankee. The Rays traded him to New York on the July 31 commerce deadline. Jazz Chisholm Jr. had a house run as effectively.
Listed below are Tuesday’s 9 homers. The Yankees are the one group in historical past with two nine-homer video games in a single season:
Bellinger, Caballero, and Stanton are the second trio Yankees’ teammates with a number of dwelling runs in a sport. Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, and Moose Skowron additionally did it towards the Boston Crimson Sox on Could 30, 1961.
Tuesday was solely the fourth time in baseball historical past a group hit 9 dwelling runs in a single sport. The Yankees had 9 homers towards the Milwaukee Brewers this March 29, the Cincinnati Reds had 9 homers towards the Philadelphia Phillies on Sept. 4, 1999, and the Toronto Blue Jays had a single-game report 10 homers towards the Baltimore Orioles on Sept. 14, 1987.
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Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone has been concerned in three of the 4 video games through which a group hit at the very least 9 dwelling runs. He managed the Yankees this 12 months, after they did it Tuesday and on March 29, and Boone additionally hit a type of 9 dwelling runs for the Reds in 1999.
Choose’s homer was his fortieth of the season. He now has 4 40-homer seasons (2017, 2022, 2024-25). Babe Ruth (11), Lou Gehrig (5), and Mickey Mantle (4) are the one different Yankees with 4 40-homer seasons. Shohei Ohtani (2021, 2023-25) is the one different lively participant to hit 40 dwelling runs in 4 completely different seasons.
Tuesday’s win was New York’s fourth straight and their sixth of their final seven video games. They’re 68-57 and within the high wild card spot. The Rays, in the meantime, are 61-65 and 6 ½ video games out of a postseason spot.
