📌 Join the BPCrew Chapter in your city and meet up with more Yankees fans! 👉 CLICK HERE

On this day in Yankees history – 3 grand slams in 1 game

August 25, 2011. After an 89-minute rain delay, the Yankees finally took the field at the stadium to take on the Oakland A’s. Phil Hughes was on the mound with Rich Harden going for the A’s. The lineup for the Bombers was:

Jeter DH
Granderson CF
Teixeira 1B
Rodriguez 3B
Cano 2B
Swisher RF
Martin C
Nunez SS
Gardner LF

The way the game started is nowhere near how it ended. Hughes was pulled after 2.2 innings in which he gave up six runs on seven hits. Cory Wade came on in relief and gave up another run to put the Yanks in a 7-1 hole in the third. They scored one in the fourth and four in the fifth to bring them within one thanks to a grand slam from Robinson Cano. Oakland didn’t score in the top of the sixth, so Russell Martin could take the lead when he came to the plate in the bottom of the inning with the bases juiced. He had already hit a homer in the fourth, and he did it again. Grand slam number two. Those four runs were the only in the inning and the Yanks are now up 10-7.

Another goose egg for Oakland in the seventh, but the Bombers tacked on six more. One run in the top of the eighth gave Oakland eight, but the Yanks weren’t done. Curtis Granderson came up with three on and two out in the bottom of the inning facing Bruce Billings, and guess what happened. With Grandy’s swing of the bat, the Yankees became the first team in the history of Major League Baseball to hit three grand slams in one game. They were down 7-1 and won the game 22-9 while going 10-for-21 with RISP thanks to five bombs, three of them being of the grand variety.

“It’s pretty amazing,” said Martin. “This game has been played for a long time. Pretty much everything has already happened. I’m waiting to see who’s going to hit four, I don’t know if it’s ever going to happen, but we’ll see. Three is pretty cool.”

“When I saw it, I was like, ‘Oh, wow,'” Granderson said. “I’m surprised it hasn’t been done before, just with all the great teams and great individual hitters that have come throughout the course of the game.”

The aptly named Bombers had seen two players belt grand slams in a game three times prior, but never at home. The last duo to do so was Paul O’Neill and Bernie Williams on September 14, 1999 in Toronto.

“It’s one of those days you know you’re not going to see again, probably. Guys swung the bats well up and down the lineup. You can’t explain it.” Derek Jeter.