The Yankees suffered their first loss of the season in painful fashion on Tuesday night, but they did make MLB history in the process.
When Anthony Volpe cranked a game-tying home run off of All-Star Corbin Burnes in the fourth inning in the Bombers series opener against the Diamondbacks, it marked the 17th home run of the season already for the Yanks, setting a new record for a team through its first four games, surpassing the 2006 Tigers.
That Detroit team stunned the Yankees in the ALDS en route to a pennant.
The Yankees, who tied the record earlier in the game with Jasson Dominguez’s first home run since the end of the 2023 season, tacked on to their new record when Ben Rice went deep in the ninth inning. But by then, New York was trailing 7-4 following a grand slam by Arizona’s Eugenio Suarez, the current MLB home run leader.
Volpe’s home run added to the “torpedo bat” intrigue, as the oddly-shaped lumber has been the talk of the young baseball season so far. But the Yanks continued power surge, even against an elite starter like Burnes, wasn’t enough to keep New York unbeaten to begin the 2025 campaign.