Yankees hit 3 homers to start game for 2nd time this season

The New York Yankees wasted no time getting to Baltimore Orioles right-hander Kyle Gibson in his 2025 debut.

Outfielder Trent Grisham started the game with a home run on the second pitch from Gibson.

Aaron Judge followed with an opposite-field blast for his ninth home run of the season.

Then, designated hitter Ben Rice went deep to make it back-to-back-to-back homers.

The Yankees also accomplished the feat in a home game against Nestor Cortes and the Milwaukee Brewers on March 29. They're the first team in MLB history to start a game with three consecutive home runs twice in the same season.

"I definitely haven’t seen anything like it," Yankees manager Aaron Boone said, according to MLB.com's Bryan Hoch. "It’s hard to wrap your head around that."

Cody Bellinger added a solo shot for good measure after Gibson retired Paul Goldschmidt for the first out. The blast capped off a four-homer onslaught on the first 12 pitches of the game.

The Yankees chased Gibson from the game after getting to him for 11 hits, nine runs, and five homers over 3 2/3 innings.

"Not many times have I done that in the first inning," Gibson said postgame, according to MASN's Roch Kubatko. "I've had a couple instances where teams jump you like that. I think four homers on four different pitches, and then a homer on a different pitch the next inning. So, just a weird instance where some of them were bad location. A couple of them weren't. I'll go back and look at it and try to see if I was doing something or getting in a pattern."

The Orioles signed Gibson to a one-year, $5.25-million contract in March. The 37-year-old posted a 3.75 ERA with 13 strikeouts across three Triple-A starts as he worked himself into shape.