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LOS ANGELES — Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani did not take long to give the sport what it craved.

The sluggers traded towering home runs in the first inning Friday night at Dodger Stadium, marking the first time in MLB history that both reigning MVPs homered in the first inning of the same game, according to Stats Perform.

Judge went first, demolishing Tony Gonsolin’s 90 mph fastball and sending it 446 feet into the batter’s eye in center field for the 1-0 lead and his 19th home run of the year.

Ohtani returned the favor in the bottom of the first, crushing Max Fried’s first pitch 417 feet to c

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