Jasson Domínguez, Anthony Volpe and Ben Rice stayed hot against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday, helping the New York Yankees shatter multiple MLB records.
Despite losing their first game of the MLB season, the New York Yankees continued their historic start to the year as they broke multiple records through their prolific home run hitting.
Aaron Judge leads the Yankees with four home runs. Jazz Chisholm and Anthony Volpe each have hit three home runs. Ben Rice and Austin Wells each have two home runs. Cody Bellinger, Jasson Dominguez, Paul Goldschmidt, and Oswald Peraza have each hit one home run.
The New York Yankees continue to send baseballs into the orbit. In fact, they just set a new MLB record amid a pair of home runs on Tuesday.
The New York Yankees tied Major League Baseball's all-time record for the most home runs hit through a team's first three games of a season on Sunday, launching four more home runs against the Milwaukee Brewers (GameTracker) to bring their seasonal total to 15.
The New York Yankees' Austin Wells became the first catcher in MLB history to hit a leadoff home run on Opening Day.
“Aaron Judge is the first Yankee in franchise history to hit four home runs in the first three games of the season,” Talkin' Yanks said in a post. Aaron Judge has had an incredible career with the Yankees so far, and he is keeping pace with one of the best to ever do it in the Big Apple: Babe Ruth.
For the first time in franchise history, the New York Yankees batted a catcher in the leadoff spot Thursday, and it did not take Austin Wells long to make an impact on