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New York Yankees match franchise record with nine HRs in win - ESPN

TAMPA, Fla. — Giancarlo Stanton and Cody Bellinger each hit two home runs, Aaron Judge launched his 40th shot of the season and the New York Yankees matched a franchise record with nine long balls Tuesday night in a convincing 13-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays.

Judge, Bellinger and Stanton went back-to-back-to-back in the first inning to give the Yankees, who also hit nine homers in a win in March, a 3-0 lead four batters into the game — after the first pitch was delayed nearly two hours by rain.

Jose Caballero connected twice for his first career multihomer game. Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Ben Rice also went deep for the Yankees, who won their fourth straight and looked awfully comfortable in a road game at their spring training home.

According to ESPN Research, the Yankees became the first team in MLB history with multiple nine-homer games in a single season. (New York also smacked nine in its second game of the campaign, a 20-9 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on March 29 at Yankee Stadium.) And Tuesday's team total tied the single-game franchise high reached three other times.

«It was awesome to see,» Stanton said during his postgame interview on the YES Network. «It was incredible across the board.»

According to ESPN Research, Stanton, Bellinger and Caballero became the second Yankees trio with multiple homers in the same game in franchise history, tying a feat pulled off by Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris and Bill Skowron on May 30, 1961, against the Boston Red Sox.

«I think we were all ready to go at 7:30 [p.m.],» Stanton said, referring to the rain delay. «And then it didn't happen, so we had to take it out on [the Rays] a little bit. But just make sure we were focused and get a win out of tonight.»

New York took full

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