NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Judge combined with Paul Goldschmidt and Cody Bellinger to go deep on the first three pitches from Nestor Cortes, then hit two more homers as the New York Yankees set a team record with nine home runs in a 20-7 rout of the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday.
Judge hit a solo homer, his ninth career grand slam and a two-run drive in his 40th multihomer game and third with three homers. He finished with a career-high eight RBIs.
He came up just short of becoming the 19th player to hit four homers in a game when his sixth-inning fly fell on the right-field warning track for a run-scoring double. He flied out in the eighth against Jake Bauers, an outfielder and first baseman.
Goldschmidt, Bellinger and Judge homered starting the first on the unusually warm 78-degree afternoon. Major League Baseball said this was the first time a team homered on its first three pitches since tracking of pitch counts began in 1988.
Austin Wells, Anthony Volpe, Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Oswald Peraza also homered.
Traded from the Yankees in December, Cortes (0-1) gave up eight runs, six hits and five walks over two innings in his Brewers debut.
CARDINALS 5, TWINS 1
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Lars Nootbaar had two hits and two RBIs, helping Erick Fedde and St. Louis beat Minnesota.
Nolan Arenado, Iván Herrera and Victor Scott II also had two hits apiece for St. Louis, which beat Minnesota 5-3 on Thursday on opening day.
Fedde (1-0) permitted one run and two hits in six innings. He retired his last 10 batters.
The Cardinals scored three runs in the sixth to open a 4-1 lead. Arenado doubled off the shoulder of Jorge Alcala (0-1) and Alec Burleson drew a walk. Herrera singled home Arenado and Louis Varland relieved.
After a walk, Varland struck out two before Nootbaar singled to center to drive in Burleson and Herrera.
Arenado singled home Nootbaar in the first, but the Twins tied it on Willi Castro’s RBI double in the second.
Minnesota starter Joe Ryan pitched five innings of five-hit ball. He struck out five and walked none.
ANGELS 1, WHITE SOX 0
CHICAGO (AP) — Yoán Moncada hit an RBI single against his former team in the eighth inning, the Los Angeles blanked Chicago.
Jorge Soler walked with two outs in the eighth and advanced to third on Mike Clevinger’s wild pitch. Catcher Matt Thaiss had trouble locating the ball as Soler scampered around the bases.
Moncada then drove in Soler with a grounder back up the middle that went off Clevinger (0-1) for an infield single. Moncada played for the White Sox for the previous eight seasons before signing with the Angels in free agency.
Los Angeles right-hander José Soriano (1-0) pitched seven innings of two-hit ball. He struck out five and walked two.
Soriano made 20 starts and two relief appearances for Los Angeles last year, going 6-7 with a 3.42 ERA. He was shut down in August because of right arm fatigue.
Ben Joyce worked the eighth and Kenley Jansen earned his first save of the season, finishing a two-hitter.
ORIOLES 9, BLUE JAYS 5
TORONTO (AP) — Jordan Westburg hit two solo homers for his first career multihomer game, and Baltimore beat Toronto.
Colton Cowser also connected for Baltimore, and Ramón Urías hit a three-run double. The Orioles finished with 12 hits after they had three in Friday’s 8-2 loss.
Three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer
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