OAKLAND, Calif. — Within the Yankees’ final series on the Coliseum, they spent Saturday launching a couple of last souvenirs into the stands.
Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton and Anthony Volpe all went yard with monster blasts that traveled a combined 1,287 feet to key an offensive outburst.
In a stadium that long doubled as a football field, the Yankees scored a touchdown and kicked a field goal as they inched closer to wrapping up the AL East with a 10-0 win over the A’s.
With the win, combined with the Orioles losing earlier on Saturday, the Yankees (91-64) regained a five-game lead atop the division with seven games to play and cut their magic number to clinch the AL East to 3.
The Yankees’ fifteenth double-digit scoring game of the season was good enough run support for Carlos Rodon, who navigated some traffic to toss six shutout innings.
The left-hander scattered five hits and one walk, continuing a solid run heading towards October while lowering his ERA to three.98 in his thirty first start of the 12 months.
Judge’s home run was his 54th of the season, a 425-foot solo shot within the seventh inning that put the Yankees up 7-0.
Eleven years after he took batting practice with the Yankees on the Coliseum as a 21-year-old who had just change into their first-round draft pick, Judge continued his historic season.
He joined Babe Ruth as only the second Yankee to record two seasons of at the least 54 home runs.
The house runs from Volpe and Stanton, meanwhile, were encouraging signs for 2 of the team’s streakiest hitters. There is commonly no middle ground between cold and hot for the duo, but when the Yankees have the likes of Stanton and Volpe rolling at the identical time, their lineup becomes that much deeper and more dangerous.
Entering this series, Volpe was just 5-for-44 (.114) with no extra-base hits over his last 13 games.
But he collected a three-hit night on Friday after which stayed hot on Saturday, crushing a 421-foot solo home run within the second inning – the longest of his profession – for the 3-0 lead off former Yankees left-hander JP Sears. It marked Volpe’s first home run since Aug. 3, going 41 games without one.
Stanton had been equally cold of late.
After grounding right into a double play in the primary inning Saturday (which scored a run from third), he was 5-for-42, including six strikeouts in his last two games.
But in true Stanton fashion, he snapped out of the slump with a moonshot, clobbering a three-run shot 441 feet off Sears within the third inning to make it 6-0.
The Yankees gave Rodon a result in work with from the get go, plating a pair of runs in the highest of the primary.
Singles by Gleyber Torres and Juan Soto were followed by a nine-pitch walk from Judge to load the bases for Stanton, who grounded right into a double play that scored Torres from third.
Jasson Dominguez got here up next and ripped a single through the left side to make it 2-0.
After Judge went deep off righty reliever Brandon Bielak to steer off the seventh, the Yankees piled on with three more runs to succeed in double digits. Volpe drove in a single run on a fielder’s selection before Torres added a two-run single for the 10-0 lead.
Eight of the nine Yankees within the starting lineup recorded at the least one hit while all of them reached base safely.
Mark Leiter Jr. relieved Rodon within the seventh and tossed two perfect innings with three strikeouts before Tim Mayza closed it out within the ninth.
OAKLAND, Calif. — Within the Yankees’ final series on the Coliseum, they spent Saturday launching a couple of last souvenirs into the stands.
Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton and Anthony Volpe all went yard with monster blasts that traveled a combined 1,287 feet to key an offensive outburst.
In a stadium that long doubled as a football field, the Yankees scored a touchdown and kicked a field goal as they inched closer to wrapping up the AL East with a 10-0 win over the A’s.
With the win, combined with the Orioles losing earlier on Saturday, the Yankees (91-64) regained a five-game lead atop the division with seven games to play and cut their magic number to clinch the AL East to 3.
The Yankees’ fifteenth double-digit scoring game of the season was good enough run support for Carlos Rodon, who navigated some traffic to toss six shutout innings.
The left-hander scattered five hits and one walk, continuing a solid run heading towards October while lowering his ERA to three.98 in his thirty first start of the 12 months.
Judge’s home run was his 54th of the season, a 425-foot solo shot within the seventh inning that put the Yankees up 7-0.
Eleven years after he took batting practice with the Yankees on the Coliseum as a 21-year-old who had just change into their first-round draft pick, Judge continued his historic season.
He joined Babe Ruth as only the second Yankee to record two seasons of at the least 54 home runs.
The house runs from Volpe and Stanton, meanwhile, were encouraging signs for 2 of the team’s streakiest hitters. There is commonly no middle ground between cold and hot for the duo, but when the Yankees have the likes of Stanton and Volpe rolling at the identical time, their lineup becomes that much deeper and more dangerous.
Entering this series, Volpe was just 5-for-44 (.114) with no extra-base hits over his last 13 games.
But he collected a three-hit night on Friday after which stayed hot on Saturday, crushing a 421-foot solo home run within the second inning – the longest of his profession – for the 3-0 lead off former Yankees left-hander JP Sears. It marked Volpe’s first home run since Aug. 3, going 41 games without one.
Stanton had been equally cold of late.
After grounding right into a double play in the primary inning Saturday (which scored a run from third), he was 5-for-42, including six strikeouts in his last two games.
But in true Stanton fashion, he snapped out of the slump with a moonshot, clobbering a three-run shot 441 feet off Sears within the third inning to make it 6-0.
The Yankees gave Rodon a result in work with from the get go, plating a pair of runs in the highest of the primary.
Singles by Gleyber Torres and Juan Soto were followed by a nine-pitch walk from Judge to load the bases for Stanton, who grounded right into a double play that scored Torres from third.
Jasson Dominguez got here up next and ripped a single through the left side to make it 2-0.
After Judge went deep off righty reliever Brandon Bielak to steer off the seventh, the Yankees piled on with three more runs to succeed in double digits. Volpe drove in a single run on a fielder’s selection before Torres added a two-run single for the 10-0 lead.
Eight of the nine Yankees within the starting lineup recorded at the least one hit while all of them reached base safely.
Mark Leiter Jr. relieved Rodon within the seventh and tossed two perfect innings with three strikeouts before Tim Mayza closed it out within the ninth.
