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.

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.