Mike Trout's Yankee Stadium Show: Entering Rare MLB History

Someday Mike Trout will join Jimmie Foxx in the Hall of Fame. Until he gets the phone call towards the end of a January in the future, Trout can settle for another link with the outfielder from the A's dynasty of the 1930s.

Trout's resurgence made a big appearance this week at Yankee Stadium. It was so massive and featured five home runs totaling 2,127 feet into various locations beyond the fences in the Bronx.

The fifth was a 446-foot drive about halfway up the left field bleachers on Thursday afternoon. The blast was 49 feet shy and slightly to the left of where Aaron Judge hit a mammoth homer against the Baltimore Orioles on June 11, 2017.

When the homer quickly rose into the stands, it made Trout the only player to ever hit five homers in a series against the Yankees at any version of Yankee Stadium, which has been in its third incarnation since 2009 – the year the Angels picked Trout four selections before Slade Heathcott in the first round.

"I heard that after the game," Trout said. "It's pretty surreal. All the great players that came through here, so it's pretty cool."

"Honestly, not surprising," Los Angeles manager Kurt Suzuki said. "When you're with Mike every day, there's nothing that you believe that he can't do.

Inside Mike Trout's resurgence

Keeping Trout healthy has been a big storyline around the Angels in recent seasons. Last season, he stayed mostly healthy by playing 130 games – his most since 2019.

In the previous two seasons, Trout was limited to 111 games. In 2022, he appeared in 119 games and 36 in 2021.

Last season, Trout finished with 26 homers – his most since hitting 40 in 2022. He also finished with six over the final week after taking a step back with his foot before swinging at the suggestion of former hitting coach Jay Washington.

He abandoned the technique during spring training and for the first two weeks before reverting to it over the weekend in Cincinnati and again in New York where the three-time MVP saw 91 pitches.

"At this point it's vintage Mike Trout," Jo Adell said after donating the glove he made those three catches with on April 4 to the Hall of Fame. "When he's healthy and feeling good, there's nothing like it. It's special. It's one of a kind. So for all of us to experience it, it's special."

"He's unbelievable," first-year Angels manager Kurt Suzuki said. "He really is. It's been an amazing week for him."

446-FOOT BLAST



Mike Trout homers in a FOURTH straight game pic.twitter.com/Fcu8eLLvav

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Who else hit five homers in a series against the Yankees?

Trout and Foxx are among the four players to ever hit five homers in any series against the Yankees. The others are Darrell Evans and George Bell in 1985 and 1990 respectively.

Foxx homered five times during a four-game series at Shibe Park, including a three-homer game against Lefty Gomez on June 8, 1933 when he went deep in three straight consecutive at-bats. It was his second three-homer game and Foxx 7-for-20 with five homers and 10 RBIs while Trout was 6-for-16 with eight RBIs in this series.

The next time it was done occurred Sept. 17-19, 1985 when Evans contributed to the Yankees late collapse in Billy Martin's fourth managerial stint. He started with a multi-homer game off Ron Guidry in Tiger Stadium, homered off Hall of Famer Phil Niekro the following night before hitting two against Joe Niekro and Dennis Rasmussen in the series finale.

Before Thursday, the most recent instance was George Bell in a four-game series at Toronto June 21-24, 1990. After homering against Andy Hawkins and Dave Righetti in the first game, Bell homered in the 15th off a 8-7 loss the next night and homered off Chuck Cary in consecutive at-bats during the series finale.

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Trout and Judge put on an early season power display

Maybe it coincided with the average game-time temperature of 82 degrees this week or maybe Trout and Judge just happened to heat up at the same time.

Either way, both sluggers put on a show and gave audiences what they crave – big swings from star players.

The duo combined for nine homers. Judge matched Trout's multi-homer game on Monday, homered again on Wednesday to nearly the same spot in the right field stands as Trout and homered before Trout belted his latest homer.

It left all those involved awestruck by the power of the duo who are up to 787 combined homers.

"He's unreal," Giancarlo Stanton said. "Cool showing from him and Judgey all series. Obviously, you don't want that against us, but you got to acknowledge the greatness."

And Trout returning to greatness after some frustrating seasons is a nice thing to see and might make the Angels better than anticipated.

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This story was originally published April 17, 2026 at 6:02 AM.