The numbers, when punched and calculated and extrapolated for a 162-game season, form a dizzying blend of jaw-dropping, historic and unsustainable digits.
After three games, the Yankees are on pace to hit 810 home runs this year, Aaron Judge is on pace to blast 216, Jazz Chisholm Jr. — who collected just 13 in 60 regular-season and playoff games after arriving last year, who has never launched more than 24 in a campaign — has established a stunning 162-homer clip, which perhaps partially can be attributed to using the new “torpedo” bat shape.
For a franchise at the center of MLB’s history since 1903, the Yankees spent most of their season-opening series against the Brewers shaping some more. They tied an MLB record with 15 homers through their first three games, punctuated by the four blasts in Sunday’s 12-3 win, which came 24 hours after they broke a team record with nine home runs.
Paul Goldschmidt, Cody Bellinger and Judge went back-to-back-to-back on the first three pitches of Saturday’s game — the first time in MLB history that has happened. And Judge, after his three-homer game Saturday, joined Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio and Alex Rodriguez as the only players in Yankees history with at least three three-homer games.