Aaron Judge and Mike Trout put on a show on Monday. They weren’t even the only ones.
Aaron Judge, Mike Trout Lead Monday Home Run Explosion
Nine different players hit multiple home runs on Monday, tied for the second-most multi-homer performances on a single day in MLB history, trailing only September 10, 2019, when ten players accomplished the feat (via Sarah Langs).
It was the sixth time ever that at least nine players went deep twice in the same day, and it delivered some genuinely memorable individual performances from top to bottom.
The headliner was the Yankees-Angels thriller, which doubled as a showcase for two of the game’s all-time greats going blow for blow. Judge got things started with a 456-foot first-inning bomb off the bat at 116.2 mph (the hardest-hit home run by any player this season), then added a go-ahead solo shot in the sixth at 111.4 mph to help New York survive an 11-10 slugfest.
All Rise ?⚖️Aaron Judge launches a 456-foot home run! pic.twitter.com/SqT65zZAjd
— MLB (@MLB) April 13, 2026Trout, on the other side, hit a game-tying three-run shot in the sixth (421 feet) and a go-ahead two-run blast in the eighth (445 feet) that nearly gave the Angels the win. He also had a 393-foot bases-loaded flyout to the warning track that just missed being a third. The two performances marked just the fourth game in MLB history in which two multi-time MVPs each hit multiple home runs.
The game had a third hero worth mentioning: Trent Grisham, who didn’t even enter until the fifth inning as a pinch-hitter. He hit a go-ahead three-run homer in his first plate appearance, then a game-tying two-run shot in the ninth.
TRENT GRISHAM JOINS THE MULTI-HR PARTYTie game in the 9th! pic.twitter.com/lHYkhBA4HO
— MLB (@MLB) April 14, 2026Elsewhere around the league, Kyle Schwarber went deep twice in his first two plate appearances against Javier Assad, his seventh multi-homer game since the start of last season, a stretch that includes a two-homer effort in last year’s NLDS.
In the Diamondbacks-Orioles contest at Camden Yards, Ketel Marte opened the game with a 443-foot shot onto Eutaw Street at Camden Yards and homered again in his second plate appearance, narrowly missing what would have been just the second time a player reached Eutaw Street twice in one game. Nolan Arenado also went deep twice in that same game, his first multi-homer effort since July 2023, but Baltimore still won 9-7, in part because of Jeremiah Jackson’s multi-homer day that included a sixth-inning grand slam to help erase a six-run deficit.
Jeremiah Jackson grand slam!It's a one-run game in Baltimore ? pic.twitter.com/qqXsWUv8NX
— MLB (@MLB) April 14, 2026Seattle’s Josh Naylor homered in each of his first two plate appearances to help the Mariners complete a four-game sweep of the Astros, and Jake Burger did the same in Texas as the Rangers rolled 8-1 over the A’s.
Nine players, nine multi-homer games, one very fun Monday.
Garrett Crochet Gets Shelled in Worst Career Outing
The Twins had their way with Garrett Crochet on Monday night, chasing the Red Sox ace after just 1.2 innings in a 13-6 blowout, the worst start of his career by just about any measure.
Crochet allowed 11 runs on nine hits, walked three, hit a batter, and recorded zero strikeouts before manager Alex Cora came to get him after 55 pitches. His ERA jumped from 3.12 to 7.58 in one night. He looked shell-shocked walking off the mound, and the velocity readings didn’t help the optics. His four-seamer averaged 94.9 mph, down from his season average of 96.1, with his cutter, sinker, and sweeper all similarly suppressed.
Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-Imagn ImagesThe good news, according to both Crochet and Cora, is that health isn’t the issue. Crochet attributed the outing to command problems lurking beneath the surface. “Command as a whole has been spotty,” he said. “Gotten away with it a little this early in the year, but tonight they made me pay. It was weak contact, hard contact, walks, hit by pitch — a little bit of everything.” Cora echoed that the velocity dip wasn’t a concern.
That said, the underlying numbers are worth watching. Crochet has already hit four batters this season after hitting just three all of last year, and his walk total is trending in the wrong direction. He’d walked just four in his first three starts before issuing three more Monday.
Extra Innings
Orioles first baseman Ryan Mountcastle was placed on the 60-day injured list because of a fractured left foot, suffered while running the bases, in one of the weirder injuries you’ll see.For those wondering how… t.co/mejjdbC95p pic.twitter.com/jdapHSwyIQ
— Baseball Unstitched (@BaseUnstitched) April 13, 2026 Evan Sisk missed an immaculate inning by one pitch, but not before his catcher, Henry Davis, tried to help him accomplish the feat with an ABS challenge on a pitch that wasn’t particularly close to begin with.Good guy Henry Davis challenging an obvious ball juuuuust in case Evan Sisk had the immaculate inning ? t.co/fdrvvXiNbh pic.twitter.com/J5yeCo9p2e
— Platinum Key (@PlatinumKey13) April 14, 2026 The New York Mets are having a lot of problems offensively. They’ve been shut out in back-to-back games and have lost six straight. During that six-game losing streak, they’ve scraped together just nine runs. New York’s latest shutout came on Monday, when Justin Wrobleski turned in a career night, throwing eight scoreless innings, allowing only two hits to the Mets.Justin Wrobleski's performance on Monday against the Mets:8 IP2 H0 ER0 BB2 K90 pitchesOne of the best pitching performances of the MLB season from the Dodgers' No. 6/spot starter.pic.twitter.com/fJ34719Yxf
— Noah Camras (@noahcamras) April 14, 2026 Lost in the multi-homer party on Monday was Jordan Walker hitting another home run, his league-leading eighth of the season.Jordan Walker extends his MLB home run lead with No. 8 ? pic.twitter.com/QAUe4U83BX
— MLB (@MLB) April 14, 2026 Paul Skenes threw a sweeper on Monday that had 19 inches of horizontal break, and it was disgusting:Paul Skenes, Wicked 85mph Sweeper. ?19 inches of Horizontal Break. pic.twitter.com/XMdisvyCse
— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) April 13, 2026 We’ve got 15 games on the slate today:-Nolan McLean and Yoshinobu Yamamoto face off in Los Angeles-Kevin Gausman and Jacob Misiorowski take the hill-Padres look for 6th straight W, Mariners aim for 5 in a rowA full slate of baseball coming your way tonight ? pic.twitter.com/JO5AqA9GXS
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