Goldie Bellinger only once in 85,044 games, how dare you humiliate a close pitcher like this
Mar 30, 2025
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Since the launch of the National League in 1876, the total number of Major League regular season games has been 247,731 games. It is 85,029 games since 1988, that is, the previous 155,702 games did not record the ball count of the hit. The ratio amounts to 64.7 percent.
Records related to pitching and ball count were not compiled before 1987, so the historical value of those records is inevitably reduced.
Still, rare records appear occasionally. The New York Yankees have set a historic record regarding the number of pitches. He connected all three balls with home runs at the start of the game.
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Aaron Judge, the main catcher, hit a solo shot in the first inning, the bases loaded in the third inning, and a two-run shot in the fourth inning. The three-homer game is his third career achievement.
In the bottom of the first inning alone, the Yankees took the lead by scoring four runs with four solo homers. However, as if the 1st to 3rd hitters promised, he hit the first pitch of Milwaukee left-hander Nestor Cortes and turned over the fence. Therefore, the first three-hitter home run in the first inning was the first in 85,044 games held until this day since 1988.
Leadoff Paul Goldschmidt pulled a high fastball outside 90.1 miles to well over the left-center fence, while Cody Bellinger drew an arch over the right-center fence by pulling a high fastball over 90.6 miles. Goldschmidt and Bellinger, who wore Yankees uniforms last winter, connected their first ball to a home run in their first at-bat in the transfer.
Judge then pulled an 88.2-mile cutter flying toward Cortes' first pitch and hit a large solo home run that fell into the middle of the stands behind the left fence. The home run is a 30-degree launch angle, 115-mile batting speed, and 468-foot-long season's marquee cannon.
It is not known whether the first three batters hit home runs in a row in the first inning before 1987.
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Judge shot a grand slam to left-center with no outs in the bottom of the third inning with an 8-3 lead, recording his ninth career bases loaded. At the ball count of 2B1S, he hit an 88.8-mile-high cutter on the fourth pitch of the opponent's left-hander Connor Thomas and put it 396 feet over the left fence.
Then, in the fourth at-bat with two outs and a runner on second base in the fourth inning, he hit a two-run shot over the middle to widen the gap to 16-4.
Judge went into the game after the game "with a clear game plan. We know Nestor well. He is an aggressive pitcher who actively throws strikes. So I decided to hit the ball that came into the zone" he said.
Goldschmidt said "The game can't go this well from the beginning. I tried to maintain the same mindset and form as before. You're lucky, but a good home run hit came in, and Bellinger said "It was a great moment. We talked after the game, and it's the first time in history. It was part of a really special case. Now that the party has begun, I'm glad."
Regardless of the number of pitches at the start of the game, it is the first time in Yankees history that three consecutive home runs have been recorded and the 10th in total. It is also the first time that three batters have connected three consecutive balls thrown by opponents with home runs since Yankees Brett Gardner, DJ LeMayhew and Luke Voit collaborated against Toronto on Sept. 18, 2020.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
