These Yankees torpedo bats are more like heat-seeking missiles, which remained blistering hot on Sunday afternoon in the Bronx. Just one day after hitting a franchise-record nine round-trippers in a 20-9 victory, the Bronx Bombers hit another four home runs in their 12-3 victory to complete an opening weekend series sweep of the Milwaukee Brewers.
Jazz Chisholm hit two home runs, including a three-run shot in the seventh inning, and Aaron Judge hit his fourth in the last two games and also went deep in the win. Ben Rice added his first of the season to become the eighth Yankee already this season to hit a homer.
With it, the Yankees (3-0) tied the MLB record set by the 2006 Detroit Tigers with 15 home runs hit in the first three games of a season. The Bronx Bombers also became one of nine teams in MLB history to hit 13 or more home runs in any two-game stretch — the fifth time in franchise history they have done that (1939, 2007, 2020 twice). The 1999 Cincinnati Reds hold the record with 14.
“The thing I felt best about coming out of spring training is the amount all those guys were able to get what I felt was the right amount of playing time, good amount of at-bats,” manager Aaron Boone said. “I felt most of the guys were in a pretty good place with their swings… they’ve done a really good job of executing the gameplan.”
You’re not always going to have games like this, but I like the approach and the frame of mind every day.
The assault began early, as has already become the theme in 2025.
In the bottom of the first, following a lead-off Paul Goldschmidt single, Judge took Brewers starter Aaron Civale’s 3-2 fastball toward the bottom of the zone 410 feet into the left-field seats to give the Yankees a 2-1 lead.
It was Judge’s fourth home run in his last seven at-bats, which made him the first slugger in team history to record four or more round-trippers in his first three games of a season.
“With Aaron, you can never put a ceiling on what’s possible with what he can do,” Boone said of the reigning AL MVP. “It’s good to see him have a really great first series.”
Rice made it 3-1 when he jumped on a hanging sinker from Civale, turning on it and sending it 383 feet into the second deck in right field for his first home run of the season.
Chisholm hit the Yankees’ third home run in as many innings — and their 12th in their last 12 innings — to make the Brewers pay for intentional walking Judge and make it a 5-1 game. The left-handed second baseman took advantage of the short porch in right, lining a screaming 109-mph line drive just over the wall.
“We have a whole team of superstars, not just one superstar,” Chisholm told YES Network. “…You walk one, we’re going to take advantage of it.”
Civale’s day was done after the third, ending with five earned runs on four hits — three of them leaving the yard.
Jake Bauers answered with a wall-scraper of his own in the top of the fourth, lining a 108.7-mph liner 331 feet off the right-field foul pole to cut the Brewers’ hole to 5-3 off Yankees starter Marcus Stroman, who was yanked with two outs in the frame and just one short of registering the win. The veteran righty, who the Yankees attempted to trade all winter, allowed five hits with three strikeouts and a walk to go with the three earned runs.
The Yankees re-opened their lead with two in the bottom of the sixth. A wild pitch from Brewers reliever Jared Koenigin scored Judge from third before an Austin Wells groundout scored Chisholm.
They added another five in the seventh, headlined by the three-run home run by Chisholm that he snuck inside the right-field foul pole for his second of the day. It answered an RBI single from Goldschmidt and a sacrifice fly by Cody Bellinger.
With the game already out of hand, the Brewers turned to Bauers — the first baseman who pitched a scoreless inning on Saturday — to pitch the bottom of the eighth inning. While the Yankees loaded the bases, they did not score a run
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