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Did they play the Game of the Year last night?
Yankees 11, Angels 10
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Angels 0 0 0 4 0 3 1 2 0 10 12 1
Yankees 2 2 0 0 3 1 0 0 3 11 14 1
Maybe they did, but the year, perhaps, was 2017. With the April weather turning warm, finally, we saw 144 runs scored, all in regulation, across ten MLB games. There were 37 home runs hit. The league OPS jumped eight points in one day, from 693 to 701.
This was the first contest of 2026 in which both teams reached ten runs in a nine-inning game. It had three ties and two lead changes. The most 2017 thing about it? It lasted three hours and 36 minutes, just the 22nd nine-inning game to run over 3:30 since the pitch clock was introduced in 2023. The Yankees have played two of them in the last two weeks, including a 3:49 game April 4 that is the longest nine-inning game of the pitch clock era.
