Trout’s Yankee Streak
Mike Trout became the first opposing player to homer in four consecutive days at Yankee Stadium, knocking five homers across that series. (x.com) MLB and social highlights flagged each of those long balls during the series, underscoring how rare the streak is at Yankee Stadium. (x.com)
Mike Trout left the Bronx as the first visiting player to homer on four straight days at the current Yankee Stadium. (mlb.com) He hit five home runs in the Angels’ four-game series against the Yankees, including a 446-foot solo shot in the seventh inning of an 11-4 win on Thursday, April 16. Trout went 6-for-16 with nine runs batted in over the series. (espn.com) The run started Monday, April 13, when Trout homered twice in the opener. He went deep again on April 14, again on April 15, and then once more in the finale on April 16. (mlb.com) Major League Baseball said Trout is the first visiting player to homer in four straight games at any version of Yankee Stadium. The current park opened in 2009, and the only earlier four-game-in-a-series streak there belonged to John Mayberry Sr. in 1972 over three days because of doubleheaders. (mlb.com) The series also put Trout on a shorter list against the Yankees themselves. According to Major League Baseball research, he joined Jimmie Foxx in 1933, Darrell Evans in 1985, and George Bell in 1990 as the only players to hit five homers in a series against New York. (espn.com) Thursday’s homer also made Trout the first player to hit five home runs in a series in the Bronx. He has now homered in his past five games at Yankee Stadium, joining Aaron Judge’s August 2024 run as the only such streaks at the current ballpark. (espn.com) The burst came in a series that doubled as a star-for-star exchange with Judge. Judge hit four home runs in the same four games, and Giancarlo Stanton said after Thursday’s loss that Trout and Judge put on a “cool showing” even as the Yankees dropped the finale. (espn.com) For Trout, the timing lands after several injury-hit seasons that interrupted his usual pace. ESPN reported he entered Thursday hitting.246 with seven home runs, and five of those seven came during this road trip surge after what the Angels described as a small mechanical adjustment. (espn.com) The Angels split the four games in New York, and Trout said the record felt “pretty surreal” given the hitters who have passed through the stadium. In a park built to honor baseball history, he added his own line to it over four straight April days. (mlb.com)
