Trout puts Angels ahead with 3rd homer in 2 games, and this time Judge and Yankees don't bounce back
Mike Trout hit another go-ahead home run, and this time Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees didn't come back. Finding his power groove after a mechanical tweak of his swing, Trout hit a 445-foot home run, the first of three Angels long balls in a five-pitch span of the first inning off Ryan Weathers, and Los Angeles beat the Yankees 7-1 on Tuesday night. “He’s unbelievable,” Angels starter Reid Detmers said.
NEW YORK (AP) — Mike Trout hit another go-ahead home run, and this time Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees didn't come back. Finding his power groove after a mechanical tweak of his swing, Trout hit a 445-foot home run, the first of three Angels long balls in a five-pitch span of the first inning off Ryan Weathers, and Los Angeles beat the Yankees 7-1 on Tuesday night. Trout has three home runs in the first two games of the four-game series, raising the three-time AL MVP's season total to five.
Jo Adell and Jorge Soler followed with home runs. “He’s unbelievable,” Angels starter Reid Detmers said. “He’s Mike Trout for a reason.
He’s fun to watch. Watching him and Judge go against each other, it’s just fun to watch. ” Trout, like Judge a three-time AL MVP, started taking a step back before his swing last weekend in Cincinnati.
He is 6 for 21 with 10 RBIs in his last five games, “It just keeps from getting stuck and spinning and being under the ball,” Trout said of the adjustment. Trout and Judge each homered twice on Monday in the Angels' 11-10 walk-off loss . The series with Trout and the Yankees' Judge, Giancarlo Stanton and Paul Goldschmidt makes the second time since 1900 that the top four active home run hitters played in the same game, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.