MLB's wild Monday
A late‑week stretch of MLB highlights included Mike Trout hitting a game‑tying homer for the Angels against the Yankees, Aaron Judge answering with a 456‑foot go‑ahead blast, and the Yankees ultimately winning on a walk‑off wild pitch. ( ) Social clips also showed the Marlins torching Atlanta for double‑digit runs, Byron Buxton becoming Target Field’s all‑time home‑run leader, Miguel Rojas’ diving play, and Kyle Schwarber’s knee‑down homer circulating widely. ( )
The New York Yankees capped a home-run trade with the Los Angeles Angels by winning 11-10 on a ninth-inning wild pitch Monday night in the Bronx. (mlb.com) Aaron Judge and Mike Trout each hit two home runs in the same game, and Trent Grisham tied it in the ninth with a two-run shot off Jordan Romano before the wild pitch ended it. Major League Baseball said it was only the second game in league history in which two three-time Most Valuable Players each hit multiple homers. (mlb.com) Judge’s first homer was a two-run drive in the first inning, and Trout’s sixth-inning homer tied the game 7-7 before his two-run shot in the eighth put the Angels ahead 10-8. Judge’s second homer traveled 456 feet, according to social clips circulated by Major League Baseball after the game. (mlb.com) The game landed in a stretch of April baseball when early standings still move quickly: the Yankees entered Monday at 8-7, the Angels at 8-8, and every swing changed the look of the American League race for a night. Major League Baseball’s Monday scoreboard showed 15 games on the schedule, with several turning into lopsided or high-scoring finishes. (mlb.com) Miami supplied one of those blowouts by beating Atlanta 10-4 on April 13, ending a three-game skid. Agustín Ramírez and Connor Norby homered, and the Braves, who started the night 10-6, gave up double-digit runs at home. (apnews.com) Minnesota got a milestone in a 13-6 win over Boston when Byron Buxton hit his 85th career home run at Target Field, passing Max Kepler for the most at the ballpark since it opened in 2010. The homer came in the fifth inning and gave the Twins a 12-3 lead. (mlb.com) In Los Angeles, Dodgers infielder Miguel Rojas added one of the night’s most-circulated defensive plays when he made a diving stop on a 106.2 mile-per-hour grounder by Bo Bichette in the second inning against the Mets. Major League Baseball’s clip logged the ball at a 5-degree launch angle and 116 feet off the bat. (mlb.com) In Philadelphia, Kyle Schwarber added to the reel with two home runs in a 13-7 Phillies win over the Cubs. One of the clips that spread Monday showed Schwarber finishing his swing with a knee near the dirt as the ball left the yard. (mlb.com; wral.com) By Tuesday morning, the standings would count the same as any other April results. But Monday’s baseball was the kind that turns a full scoreboard into a highlight loop: stars trading homers, a ballpark record in Minneapolis, and a game in New York that ended with nobody needing another swing. (mlb.com; mlb.com)
