Trout smashes through Yankee series
Mike Trout hit five home runs and drove in nine runs across a four‑game set in New York, while Aaron Judge finished with four homers in the same series and homered in the first inning of the April 16 finale — Angels and Yankees split the series with the Angels winning 11‑4 on April 16. (si.com) (el-balad.com) (mlb.com)
Mike Trout left Yankee Stadium with five home runs in four days, capping the set with another blast in the Angels’ 11-4 win on April 16. (mlb.com) Trout homered in all four games of the series and finished 6 for 16 with nine runs batted in. Aaron Judge hit four homers in the same set, including a first-inning solo shot in the finale, as the teams split the four games 2-2. (mlb.com) (espn.com) The opener on April 13 set the tone: Trout and Judge both hit two home runs, and New York won 11-10. Trout then homered again on April 14 and April 15 before adding his fifth of the series on April 16. (mlb.com) (si.com) The burst put Trout in a spot no visiting hitter had reached before at any version of Yankee Stadium: a home run in four straight days there. Major League Baseball also said this was the first series in which two opposing players who were already multiple Most Valuable Player winners each hit at least three homers. (mlb.com 1) (mlb.com 2) For Trout, the timing is part of a stronger opening to 2026 after injury-shortened seasons had limited him in recent years. Through games on April 16, he was batting.246/.416/.594 with seven home runs, and MLB.com described the surge as following a recent mechanical adjustment. (mlb.com) (espn.com) For Judge, the series looked like a continuation rather than a revival. Sports Illustrated noted that the Trout-Judge exchange recalled the rarest kind of star-vs.-star series, and Judge’s April 16 homer gave him four in the set before New York’s bullpen gave way in the late innings. (si.com 1) (si.com 2) The finale itself turned after the first inning. Judge put the Yankees ahead 1-0, but Los Angeles scored three times in the third, added four in the sixth, and got home runs from Trout, Nolan Schanuel and Logan O’Hoppe. (espn.com 1) (espn.com 2) The Angels left New York at 10-10, while the Yankees fell to 10-9, according to ESPN’s standings attached to the game page. Trout’s week in the Bronx did not settle anything about April, but it did turn one regular-season series into a record book entry. (espn.com)
