Yankees Rookies First in History to Hit Back-to-Back Home Runs in First At Bats

Tyler Austin AND Aaron Judge in today's #Yankees lineup: pic.twitter.com/APLoSr0Jv4
— Bryan Hoch (@BryanHoch) August 13, 2016

Now that the Yankees no longer have A-Rod on the roster, the youth movement is fully underway. Before today's game, New York called up highly-touted prospects Tyler Austin and Aaron Judge, and immediately put them in the lineup. In his first Major League at-bat in the second inning, Austin, a Yankees fan since he was four years old, went deep. It was an iconic Yankee Stadium home run, of a sort, just into the first row of the short porch down the right field line.

Then it was time for Judge, batting eighth behind Austin, to make his debut at the plate. He also left the yard, and his was a different kind of iconic shot: it was a monster. It bounced off the face of the Mohegan Sun sports bar out in center field—it actually almost cleared it—and clocked in at 446 feet. It's the second longest home run the Yankees have hit this season.

It seems obvious, but it's worth noting that this has never happened before. Austin and Judge are the first players in Major League history to hit back-to-back home runs in their first major league at-bats. But we're getting ahead of ourselves here, it's even the first time two players making their debuts have hit home runs in the same game, let alone back-to-back and in their first at-bats.

Clubhouse announcement on Judge: "He's the first player to homer in his first at-bat as a Yankee since Tyler Austin a couple of minutes ago"
— Lohud Yankees Blog (@LoHudYankees) August 13, 2016

They will now be linked forever as the answer to a pretty good trivia question, and as obvious future Hall of Famers and cornerstones of a future Yankee Dynasty.

[MLB]