Jose Caballero scored on a wild-pitch by Jordan Romano as the host New York Yankees snapped a six-game losing streak with a wild 11-10 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Monday night.
Trent Grisham homered twice, drove in five and his two-run drive into the right field seats off Romano (0-1) in the ninth forged a 10-10 tie.
After Caballero doubled down the left field line, the Angels pulled their infield in at the corners and the infielder stole third uncontested on a 1-1 pitch to Austin Wells.
Wells walked and Caballero scored the winning run when Romano (0-1) bounced a slider by catcher Logan O’Hoppe as Ryan McMahon walked.
The Yankees snapped their skid on a night when Aaron Judge homered twice for his 47th career multi-homer game. Judge hit a two-run homer in the first off Yusei Kikuchi and then saw his solo shot stay just fair down the left field line for an 8-7 lead in the sixth.
Judge passed Mickey Mantle for the second-most multi-homer games in team history but his biggest night of the early going nearly was not enough since the Yankees could not get Mike Trout out.
Trout had his 31st career multi-homer game when he hit a three-run homer off Jake Bird to forge a 7-7 tie in the sixth and a two-run blast off Camilo Doval in the eighth to give the Angels a 10-8 lead.
Trout, who also drove in five runs, passed Duke Snider into sole possession of 58th place on the all-time list by hitting his 407th and 408th career homers.
Caballero also hit a two-run homer in the second inning to give the Yankees a 4-0 lead, but the shortstop made a critical error that set up the Angels’ four-run fourth. Grisham connected on a pinch-hit homer off reliever Shaun Anderson in the fifth to give the Yankees a short-lived 7-4 lead.
Jorge Soler, Jo Adell and O’Hoppe hit RBI singles off Will Warren after Caballero misplayed Trout’s grounder to start the fourth. Zach Neto tied the contest with a bases-loaded walk off Fernando Cruz and it stayed tied until Grisham homered into the right field seats.
Neither starter completed four innings as the teams combined for 26 hits.
Kikuchi allowed four runs on four hits and four walks in 3 1/3 innings. He fanned three batters and gave up a pair of home runs.
Warren threw nearly 40 pitches in the fourth and allowed four unearned runs on three hits in 3 2/3 innings. He struck out six and walked one.
After the stumbles by Bird and Doval, Paul Blackburn (1-0) pitched a scoreless ninth to set up New York’s first walk-off win this season.
–Field Level Media
