When Trent Grisham, Aaron Judge and Ben Rice went deep, it marked the second time this year that New York began a game with three consecutive home runs. The Yankees are the first team to do that more than once in a season — and April hasn’t even ended yet.

And then mirroring what the Yankees did to old pal Nestor Cortes when they set a major-league record playing the Brewers on March 29 at Yankee Stadium, they matched the feat by hitting a fourth to wreck Orioles pitcher Kyle Gibson’s season debut.