Start Time: 7:10 p.m. ET
Attendance: 22,182
Venue: Tropicana Field
Game Duration: 3:46
Night Game, on turf
Yankees 8, Rays 4 in 11 innings
HR: Aaron Judge 2 (9, 1 off Ryne Stanek, 11th inn, 0 on, 0 outs to Deep CF, 1 off Brendan McKay, 1st inn, 0 on, 1 out to Deep RF)
Judge broke a 4-4 tie with a leadoff home run in the 11th inning.
After last night's Yankee game in Tampa Yankee announcers in New York said that Aaron Judge was the first Yankee since Mickey Mantle in 1955 to hit home runs in the first inning and an extra inning in the same game. They didn't specify that the extra inning homer was in the last inning or that it won the game.
I had just created a table of all Yankee regular season home runs from 1925 to 1968. If Mantle was the most recent, I could find others who had done it previously back to 1925. I searched for multiple home run games and I expanded it to looked for the last home run to be in the 9th inning or later, which could also mean between 1955 and 1968.
There were 11 occurrences, including three in the 10th inning:
| Batter | Date | HR | MinOftheInn | MaxOftheInn | FirstOfOpp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lou Gehrig | 1930-05-22 (2) | 3 | 1 | 9 | @PHA |
| Babe Ruth | 1930-08-01 | 2 | 1 | 9 | @BOS |
| Lou Gehrig | 1934-08-21 | 2 | 1 | 9 | SLB |
| Snuffy Stirnweiss | 1947-08-27 | 2 | 1 | 10 | @SLB |
| Joe Collins | 1955-08-02 | 2 | 1 | 10 | CLE |
| Mickey Mantle | 1955-08-07 (2) | 2 | 1 | 10 | DET |
| Hank Bauer | 1956-09-11 | 2 | 1 | 9 | @KCA |
| Mickey Mantle | 1957-06-12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | @CHW |
| Yogi Berra | 1959-05-20 | 2 | 1 | 9 | DET |
| Mickey Mantle | 1959-09-15 | 2 | 1 | 9 | CHW |
| Mickey Mantle | 1961-09-03 | 2 | 1 | 9 | DET |
Stirnweiss won the game 7-6. Five days before Mantle, Collins won the game 2-1 at the Stadium, both off Hall of Famer Early Wynn:
Cleveland Indians at New York Yankees Box Score, August 2, 1955
HR: Joe Collins 2 (8, 2 off Early Wynn, 1st inn, 0 on, 1 out to RF; 10th inn, 0 on, 1 out to RF).
Tigers had won the first game of a doubleheader; Mantle won the second game 3-2:
Detroit Tigers at New York Yankees Box Score, August 7, 1955
HR: Mickey Mantle 2 (26, 1 off Babe Birrer, 10th inn, 0 on, 2 outs to Deep RF, 1 off Frank Lary, 1st inn, 0 on, 2 outs to CF-RF).
Babe Birrer threw righty.
The only other game I checked to see if the last homer had won the game was Lou Gehrig's 1930 three homer game, also the second game of a doubleheader; Yanks swept the Athletics 10-1, 20-13 and they weren't even in London:
HR: Lou Gehrig 3 (10, 1 off Bill Shores, 1st inn, 3 on, 0 outs to LF, 1 off Glenn Liebhardt, 9th inn, 1 on, 0 outs to RF, 1 off Eddie Rommel, 4th inn, 1 on, 0 outs to CF)
Starting the 9th Yanks were already leading 15-12. Tony Lazzeri led off with a walk and Gehrig homered. Yanks scored three more in the 9th.
Philadelphia Athletics won 102 AL games (Pythagorean W-L: 93-61) and the World Series in 1930.
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