Judge’s two-homer walk-off night

Aaron Judge hit two home runs on April 13, and the New York Yankees beat the Los Angeles Angels 11-10 when José Caballero scored on Jordan Romano’s ninth-inning wild pitch. (mlb.com) Judge’s first homer came in the first inning off Yusei Kikuchi and traveled 456 feet at 116.2 miles per hour, which Statcast listed as the hardest-hit home run in Major League Baseball this season. His second homer went 398 feet in the sixth inning and gave him six on the year. (mlb.com 1) (mlb.com 2) The game turned into a home run exchange between Judge and Mike Trout, who also hit two homers and drove in five runs for Los Angeles. Trent Grisham added two homers for New York, including a game-tying shot in the ninth before Romano uncorked the final pitch. (espn.com) New York needed that swing of offense after dropping five straight games and opening 2026 with an 0-6 record in one-run games. The win moved the Yankees to 9-7 and stopped a skid that had followed an 8-2 start. (mlb.com) (espn.com) Judge’s night also moved him up a franchise list. MLB.com said it was his 47th career multi-homer game, passing Mickey Mantle for second-most in Yankees history behind Babe Ruth. (mlb.com) The box score shows how chaotic the game got. The Angels scored four unearned runs in the fourth, led 10-8 after Trout’s second homer in the eighth, and still lost after New York scored three times in the ninth. (espn.com) (baseball-reference.com) Associated Press noted that Judge and Trout, both three-time Most Valuable Player winners, had never before hit two homers in the same game, and that no pair of three-time Most Valuable Players had done it in one game since June 21, 1956. (apnews.com) (espn.com) By the end, the teams had combined for 21 runs, 26 hits and seven home runs covering 2,846 feet. Judge supplied the loudest swing, but the game ended on a pitch that never reached the catcher cleanly. (espn.com)