For Cortes, a nightmare Brewers debut against former club

March 29th, 2025

NEW YORK ¨C Three pitches, three home runs. That had never happened to any pitcher to begin any game in AL/NL history.

And it was only the start of a Brewers debut that would just as soon forget.

Cortes, the veteran left-hander who came to the Brewers from the Yankees in a December trade, yielded home runs on each of his first three pitches in a Milwaukee uniform, four home runs in the first inning and five home runs overall without getting an out in the third. It marked a sour start to an afternoon when Brewers pitchers allowed nine homers to set a franchise record they didn¡¯t want ¨C three from Aaron Judge, who missed a fourth by mere feet ¨C on the way to losing, 20-9, at Yankee Stadium on Saturday.

¡°You think you¡¯ve seen it all, and you haven¡¯t,¡± Brewers manager Pat Murphy said. ¡°Because we saw it today: Three pitches, three homers. It¡¯s like, really? Usually you wake up from that, you know what I mean? You go, ¡®Ah, that can¡¯t ever happen.¡¯¡±

Cortes left Yankee Stadium while reporters were in Murphy's office after the game and was unavailable for comment. Through a club spokesperson, Cortes later apologized and said he would address reporters prior to Sunday's series finale.

¡°I don¡¯t know how he handled it, but I do know he¡¯s a professional and he¡¯s a damn good pitcher,¡± said backup first baseman Jake Bauers, whose scoreless eighth inning made him the only player to pitch in the game for the Brewers without allowing a run. ¡°He¡¯s going to bounce back, and he¡¯s going to be solid for us.¡±

Cortes found trouble from the very first pitch ¨C a 90.1 mph four-seam fastball at the top of the strike zone to longtime Brewer-killer Paul Goldschmidt. Goldschmidt hit it to left-center field for a home run. Then Cody Bellinger hit another four-seamer at the top of the zone for a homer to right-center. And Judge hammered a cutter that sailed a Statcast-projected 468 feet to left.

¡°Nestor's been here for years, one of the best lefty pitchers in the game,¡± Judge said. ¡°He's a guy that's going to go out there, throw strikes, attack you. So we just tried to go out there and be aggressive in our zone. ¡®Goldy¡¯ and ¡®Belli¡¯ set the table there and got things going. The place was rocking once I walked up there.¡±

When Austin Wells added a fourth Yankees home run in the first inning, and Anthony Volpe hit a two-out, full-count, three-run homer off Cortes in the second inning right after the Brewers had clawed back to within 4-3, and Judge (grand slam) and Jazz Chisholm Jr. hit back-to-back home runs off Brewers reliever Connor Thomas in the third, and Judge homered again off Thomas in the fourth, and so on, MLB¡¯s research teams were scrambling to keep up.

Here is some of the trivia they uncovered:

? New York¡¯s nine home runs set a single-game record for Yankees hitters and for Brewers pitchers. The Brewers had yielded eight home runs in a game on five occasions, most recently at Washington on Aug. 18, 2019.

? Cortes became the seventh Brewers pitcher to allow five or more home runs in a game. The last was Michael Blazek, who served up six homers in a spot start against the Nationals on that August day in 2017, including one span of homers for four consecutive batters.

? Cortes is the fourth Brewers pitcher to allow four or more home runs in an inning. Blazek, Dave Bush and Mike Caldwell are in that group.

? Cortes became the first pitcher since the Brooklyn Dodgers¡¯ Ralph Branca in 1949 to allow five-plus homers and five-plus walks in a game.

Murphy, whose pitching staff is severely thinned by injuries to start the season, kept Cortes in the game as long as possible hoping he could discover a rhythm. He dismissed the notion that Cortes¡¯ former teammates picked up a tell, and he seemed confident of Cortes¡¯ health, since a visit from the athletic trainer in the second inning yielded no change.

Was Cortes just too keyed up to face his former team?

¡°I think that probably added to something. I don¡¯t think we¡¯re going to figure it out,¡± Murphy said. ¡°When guys don¡¯t have good stuff and the wind is blowing out and you¡¯re going against a team with that firepower, everything comes together.¡±

The Brewers did manage to avoid some other dubious history thanks to Bauers pitching a scoreless bottom of the eighth, which included a Judge lineout to left field with a four-homer game on the line. With that, Milwaukee kept the Yankees one home run shy of tying the AL/NL record for a single game (10), and avoided matching Milwaukee¡¯s franchise record for runs allowed in a game (21).

¡°I was joking with [Judge] when he was on deck, I gave him one of these,¡± Bauers said, pointing to his ribs. ¡°I gave him the best curveball I have. He still hit it pretty good, but I think he topspun it, so I knew it was going to stay in.

¡°It was a funny moment on an otherwise not good day.¡±

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