Aaron Judge combined with Paul Goldschmidt and Cody Bellinger to go deep on the first three pitches from the Brewers’ Nestor Cortes, then had two more homers and a career-high eight RBIs as the Yankees set a team record with nine home runs in a 20-9 win over the Brewers on Saturday.

Judge hit a solo homer, his ninth career grand slam, and and a two-run shot in his 40th multi-homer game and third with three homers. He came up just short of becoming the 19th player to hit four homers in a game when his sixth-inning fly fell on the right-field warning track for a run-scoring double.

Goldschmidt, Bellinger and Judge homered starting the first on the unusually warm 78-degree afternoon. Major League Baseball said this was the first time a team homered on its first three pitches since tracking of pitch counts began in 1988.

College basketball: St. John’s star RJ Luis Jr., the Big East Player of the Year, is declaring for the NBA draft and entering the transfer portal, his agent, Sam Permut of Roc Nation, told ESPN on Saturday.

NBA: Grizzlies general manager Zach Kleiman said Saturday the decision to fire coach Taylor Jenkins with nine games remaining in the regular season with the franchise firmly in the playoff chase was “mine and mine only” and in the Grizzlies’ best interests. Kleiman spoke to reporters after the Grizzlies’ pregame shootaround for Saturday night’s game against the Lakers — barely 24 hours after Memphis announced firing Jenkins in his sixth season with the Grizzlies. The Grizzlies named Tuomas Iisalo as the interim coach.

Snowboarding: American snowboarder Chloe Kim and Australia’s Scotty James won the halfpipe gold medals at the world championships Saturday. Kim scored 93.50 in her first run during the women’s final for her third world title after wins in 2019 and 2021.