Yanks make history by again opening with 3 HRs

The New York Yankees became the first team in major league history to open a game with three consecutive home runs more than once in a season when Trent Grisham, Aaron Judge and Ben Rice went deep off Baltimore's Kyle Gibson in the first inning Tuesday night.

New York started the bottom of the first of its March 29 game against Milwaukee with three homers in a row. In that game, Paul Goldschmidt, Cody Bellinger and Judge needed only three pitches to hit three homers.

The Yankees added a fourth home run later in the first inning of both that game and Tuesday's game, making them the first team to belt four in the first inning twice in a season.

On Tuesday night, the Yankees hit three of the game's first five offerings out to right field.

"Grish got it going for us and set the tone for us early on," Judge said after the 15-3 win. "When he goes up there and ... sends one to Eutaw Street, it's pretty impressive and gets you going."

It was an ugly return to the majors for the 37-year-old Gibson, who made 30 starts for the St. Louis Cardinals last season before Baltimore signed him to a $5.25 million, one-year contract in late March. He'd been working in the minors since then before being called up before Tuesday's game. He was finally pulled with two outs in the fourth after allowing nine runs and 11 hits.

"He gave up four homers in the first inning. That's kind of a telling sign," Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said. "At that point I'm just trying to figure out how we're going to get through the game."

After Rice's home run made it 3-0, Gibson retired Goldschmidt on a grounder before Bellinger also homered. Anthony Volpe's RBI double made it 5-0 before the first inning was over.

Rice homered again in the second to make it 6-0. Austin Wells hit New York's final home run -- all six came with nobody on -- with two outs in the ninth.

"It just shows that we've got a lot of depth in the lineup," Rice said.

Not all the news was great for the Yankees, however. Jazz Chisholm Jr. left the game with right flank discomfort in the first inning.

Chisholm, who is hitting .181 with seven home runs this season, appeared to have hurt himself while he was batting. After being checked on, he stayed at the plate and hit a double, advancing to third on an error by right fielder Ramon Laureano.

Chisholm said he wasn't worried about needing to go on the injured list.

"I'm really not as concerned as everybody else," Chisholm said. "I tore my oblique before. I know it's not torn or anything."

The Associated Press and ESPN Research contributed to this report.