Homers defined Mike Trout’s four-game trip to Yankee Stadium, where the Los Angeles Angels split the series with the New York Yankees after a Thursday afternoon finale that ended 11-4. Trout finished with five homers and nine RBIs in the series, and his power surge gave the Angels one of the most striking individual runs of the season so far. The homers came at a time when Trout had entered the series with only two home runs and seven RBIs on the season.
Mike Trout homers and rewrites the series record
Trout’s final homer of the series was a 446-foot solo shot off reliever Angel Chivilli in the top of the seventh inning Thursday, stretching the Angels’ lead to 7-4 before Jo Adell’s grand slam opened the game further. The Angels used that win to even the series after a back-and-forth week in the Bronx, where Trout homers became the central theme every night.
The 34-year-old also became the first visiting player to homer four straight days at Yankee Stadium, a mark tied directly to the way he kept changing the game’s rhythm. His five homers in the series also matched the most ever hit in a single series against the Yankees, a list that now includes George Bell, Darrell Evans and Jimmie Foxx.
How the homers built across four games
Trout opened the series with two homers and five RBIs in a wild Monday night game that the Yankees won on a walk-off. He then homered again in the Angels’ Tuesday win, followed by a 2-for-4 night with another homer and two RBIs in Wednesday’s loss. By Thursday, the homers had turned a strong series into a historic one.
Yankee Stadium has been a productive place for Trout throughout his career. He is hitting. 346 with 13 homers there, and if the Angels’ last meeting with the Yankees in 2025 is included, he has homered in five straight games against them in the Bronx.
Reactions inside the Yankees and Angels clubhouse
Aaron Judge was direct after Monday’s game, calling Trout “the greatest, the greatest of all time, ” and adding that every trip to the Bronx has become a show when Trout comes to town. Angels hitting coach Brady Anderson also pointed to Trout’s place among the game’s all-time OPS leaders, saying his name belongs “right in the middle of the game’s all-time legends. ”
Trout said this week that it is “pretty close” to the best he has felt in years, adding that he is “just seeing the ball and staying with a routine and having a good game plan up there. ”
Why this series matters now
The context matters because Trout entered this season with recent injury interruptions, and the Angels have spent much of the last decade without a postseason return. Yet this week’s homers suggested a version of Trout that looked far closer to the force that shaped earlier seasons.
Still, the sample is early, and the Angels’ season remains just 20 games old. What comes next will be about health, rhythm and whether Trout can keep turning homers into a larger statement, both for this season and for the rest of the Yankees series memory in the Bronx.
