The Yankees wasted no time putting the heat on their former teammate, loading the bases against Sears with nobody out in the first. Stanton came up with a chance to put a crooked number on the scoreboard right away, but instead grounded into a 5-4-3 double play. Torres scored on the play for a 1-0 Yankees lead, but Jasson Domínguez still had an opportunity to bring home Juan Soto.
This mighty clout was Volpe's 12th homer of the year and his first home run since August 2nd against Toronto. It staked the Yankees to a three-run lead, but the Yankees would soon show they weren't yet satisfied—and a second hitter would bust out of his power outage.
The next inning, Volpe hit a ball 67 feet for a home run! ...Well, I kid. The YES broadcast erroneously had the drive at 67 feet before we got the correction. It was an ironic time for the distance tracker to break because in reality, Volpe clubbed a fastball from Sears a whopping 421 feet to left center field for the longest home run of his career.
From there they kept hammering their way to a 10-0 rout. Anthony Volpe and Giancarlo Stanton ended their respective home run droughts, Aaron Judge hit his 54th bomb of the year, and Carlos Rodón handled the Oakland lineup with aplomb, firing six scoreless innings for the win.
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