Yankees Beat Rangers 4-2 on Judge-Rice Back-to-Back HRs

ARLINGTON, Texas - Aaron Judge and Ben Rice hit back-to-back home runs for the first time this season, powering the New York Yankees to a 4-2 victory over the Texas Rangers on Monday night at Globe Life Field.

Rice belted a two-run homer, his 10th of the year and sixth in his past 11 games, off starter Jack Leiter in the third inning. The drive came one pitch after Trent Grisham singled, with the ball deflecting off Leiter's glove as shortstop Corey Seager charged but could not field it barehanded. Judge followed immediately with his MLB-leading 11th homer, a 414-foot shot to left field that landed near the spot of his American League-record 62nd homer from October 2022. Judge also added two doubles and was hit by a pitch.

Jazz Chisholm Jr. extended New York's power display with a homer on the first pitch of the fourth inning, his third in five games after going deep-free for his first 23 games of the season. The three homers gave the Yankees 32 long balls over their past 14 games, up from 14 in the first 15.

Rice and Judge became the second pair of Yankees teammates to reach 10 or more homers in a team's first 29 games, matching Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra from 1956. Rice is...