Trout vs. Judge fireworks

Mike Trout and Aaron Judge turned Monday night at Yankee Stadium into an 11-10 Yankees win decided by back-to-back late home run swings. (apnews.com) Trout hit two home runs and drove in five runs for Los Angeles on April 13, including an eighth-inning shot that put the Angels ahead by two. Judge answered with two home runs of his own for New York, and Statcast measured his earlier go-ahead drive at 456 feet and 116.2 miles per hour. (apnews.com) (mlb.com) The game did not end with Judge’s blast. Trent Grisham hit his second home run of the night to tie it in the ninth, and New York won when José Caballero scored on a wild pitch from Jordan Romano. (apnews.com) (espn.com) The matchup carried extra weight because Trout and Judge have combined for six Most Valuable Player awards, three each, and both hit two home runs in the same game for the first time in 70 years, according to the Associated Press. (apnews.com) It also landed at a tense moment for New York. The Yankees entered the night on a five-game losing streak, and the comeback pushed them to 9-7 while the Angels fell to 8-9. (apnews.com) (espn.com) The box score showed how much offense came from the headliners. Judge finished with three runs batted in, Trout finished with five, and the teams combined for 21 runs, 26 hits and seven home runs. (espn.com) (apnews.com) For Trout, the night was part of an early 2026 rebound in power after an uneven start at the plate; ESPN’s game log shows he entered April 13 with four home runs in 15 games. For Judge, it was another reminder that even in a sloppy Yankees stretch, one swing can still flip the score and the stadium at once. (espn.com) (sports.yahoo.com) By the final wild pitch, the game had moved beyond a simple April series opener. It became the kind of Trout-Judge duel that usually lives in highlight reels, with both stars changing the score within minutes of each other in the late innings. (mlb.com) (apnews.com)