Yahoo! Sports | Kari Anderson: I hope no one missed Saturday’s game. If you did, you missed history. The Yanks kicked it off by blitzing Nestor Cortes’ first three pitches for three consecutive home runs (first club in known history to do so). Paul Goldschmidt, Cody Bellinger, and Aaron Judge did the honors, and Austin Wells added a fourth homer a couple batters later, the first time the Yankees had ever hit that many long balls in the first.

Then, they kept going. By the time the Yankees had finished, they’d smoked nine long balls, setting a new club record. Moreover, they became only the third club to hit nine in one game and fell one shy of the MLB mark set by the 1987 Blue Jays. Meanwhile, Judge clubbed a trifecta of dingers—the third three-homer game of his career—and came tantalizingly close to four (and even five) roundtrippers on the day.

This was fun. In short: 10/10, I think the Yankees should do it more often.

MLB.com | Bryan Hoch: Giancarlo Stanton is swinging the bat as he rehabs torn tendons in both his elbows. Aaron Boone remarked prior to Saturday’s game that “it’s been a good couple of weeks” for the injured slugger. During Saturday’s broadcast, the YES crew commented a bit further, noting that Stanton was not just dry swinging, but was taking swings in the cages beneath the stadium.

Additionally, reliever Ian Hamilton is close to returning to the Yankees. Unlike his other pitching brethren, he’s been on the IL with an illness rather than an injury, but is feeling better and began a rehab assignment at Triple-A yesterday. He should return on April 8th, when he’s first eligible.

Sports Illustrated | Liam McKeone: Stanton’s rehab wasn’t the only tidbit discussed in the booth Saturday. Michael Kay dropped an interesting nugget. After the Yankees’ analytics department realized that both Jazz Chisholm, Jr. and Anthony Volpe were making contact closer to the label than to the barrel, the club decided to custom-design bats for the duo. “They moved a lot of the wood into the label so the harder part of the bat will actually strike the ball,” Kay noted.

It seemed to work, as both went yard Saturday as part of the Yankees’ historic onslaught. Volpe has homered twice in two games after being held to 12 in 160 games last year. Oh and yes, they are indeed legal.