Aaron Judge, Mike Trout each homer twice; Yankees top Angels - ESPN

NEW YORK — Mike Trout vs. Aaron Judge transformed a baseball game into a heavyweight slugfest.

Trout's second home run of the game bounced off the back wall behind the Los Angeles Angels' bullpen in left-center, giving Los Angeles a two-run, eighth-inning lead on a night when Judge had homered twice to put the New York Yankees ahead.

Only there was more drama after the pair of three-time MVPs each homered twice in the same game for the first time in 70 years.

Trent Grisham hit his second home run of the evening — and season — to tie the score in the ninth inning. Jose Caballero trotted home on Jordan Romano's game-ending wild pitch that gave the Yankees a pulsating 11-10 win Monday and stopped a five-game losing streak.

«It was great. That's baseball for you,» Trout said. «It's what fans want, and to be able to see something like that, pretty cool.»

Only once before had a pair of three-time MVPs each homered twice in a game, according to STATS Perform.

After Stan Musial had gone deep twice, Roy Campanella hit a tying, three-run drive in the ninth for his second of the game, and Don Zimmer followed with a walk-off single to lead the Brooklyn Dodgers over the St. Louis Cardinals 9-8 at Ebbets Field on June 21, 1956.

And Trout nearly hit a third. He flied out to Cody Bellinger in front of the center-field wall, leaving the bases loaded in the fourth inning after the Angels tied the score with four unearned runs following Caballero's error on Trout's leadoff grounder to shortstop.

Judge had looked forward to crossing paths with Trout in a Yankee Stadium weight room.

«I was going to talk some smack to him after the one he hit all the way to the warning track,» Judge said, «but I didn't get a chance to and then he answers