The Major League record for consecutive games with a home run now belongs to the 2019 Yankees, and their juggernaut offense shows no signs of slowing anytime soon.
DJ LeMahieu and Aaron Judge led off the bottom of the first inning on Tuesday with back-to-back home runs off Blue Jays left-hander Clayton Richard, marking the Yankees' 28th consecutive game with at least one homer.
That broke the previous big league record, held by the Texas Rangers, who homered in 27 straight contests from Aug. 11 to Sept. 9, 2002.
"That's kind of an obscure one, but now that it's happened with our group, it doesn't surprise me," manager Aaron Boone said after Monday's 10-8 win over Toronto. "We have a lot of guys capable of hitting the ball out of the ballpark. I think they help strengthen each other because collectively they're able to wear down pitchers. That eventually leads to more and more mistakes at different points in the night."
A total of 14 Yankees have combined to hit 49 home runs during the streak, with Judge joining the fun late -- his homer was the slugger's first hit since returning from the injured list Friday.
Since May 26, when the streak began in an 8-7 loss to the Royals at Kansas City, Gary Sanchez has paced the club with eight homers. LeMahieu is second with seven, and Gleyber Torres has slugged six.
The previous franchise record was held by Joe DiMaggio's 1941 Yankees, who homered in 25 consecutive games from June 1-29 of that season. DiMaggio hit 10 homers over that span.
New York has hit multiple homers in 14 of 28 games during the streak, and in eight of its last nine games, including Tuesday. Remarkably, sluggers Judge, Edwin Encarnacion and Giancarlo Stanton have combined for just four of the homers.
"It's kind of what we do. We hit home runs here," said Aaron Hicks, who has hit four homers during the streak. "That's kind of how we score runs."
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