Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton, Anthony Volpe homer as Yankees rout A’s

OAKLAND, Calif. — In the Yankees’ final series at the Coliseum, they spent Saturday launching a few 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.

“These guys are pretty incredible,” said Carlos Rodon, who threw six strong innings to record his 16th win of the season — tied for the third-most in the majors. “I mean, this lineup’s special. They’re all great hitters. So it makes it easy for me to pitch.”

With the win, combined with the Orioles losing earlieron 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 three. They are also 1 ¹/₂ games ahead of the Guardians for the AL’s best record, which comes with home-field advantage throughout the playoffs.

“We’re in a great spot,” Stanton said. “We still got work to do, but we’re good for where we are.”

The Yankees’ 15th double-digit scoring game of the season was more than enough run support for Rodon, who navigated some traffic to record his fifth scoreless outing of the season.

The left-hander scattered five hits and one walk, continuing a solid run heading toward October while lowering his ERA to 3.98 in his 31st start of the year.

Rodon, who indicated he has been most pleased with his confidence over the month of September in which he has recorded a 1.93 ERA, described himself as “a little fanboy” watching his teammates slug home runs.

“That’s cool — the same watching him pitch,” Stanton said. “He got his 16th win tonight, another dominant performance. It’s great when we can feed off each other like that.”

Judge’s home run was his 54th of the season, a 425-foot solo shot in the seventh inning that put the Yankees up 7-0.

Eleven years after he took batting practice with the Yankees at the Coliseum as a 21-year-old who had just become 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 least 54 home runs.

The home runs from Volpe and Stanton, meanwhile, were encouraging signs for two of the Yankees’ streakiest hitters.

There is often no middle ground between hot and cold for the duo, but if the Yankees have the likes of Stanton and Volpe rolling at the same 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 and then stayed hot on Saturday, crushing a 421-foot solo home run in the second inning — the longest of his career — 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.

“I feel like he’s getting to a stronger position consistently,” manager Aaron Boone said. “I feel like he’s behind the ball a little better, where for a couple weeks there he was just kind of drifting through the ball and pushing the ball a little bit. Now I feel like he’s behind it with a little more authority right now.“As a result, you make better swing decisions too because you’re in position to shut down on pitches that you should. Hopefully he can keep that going and keep building on this, because it’s been a couple really good days of at-bats for him.”

Stanton had been equally cold of late.

After grounding into a double play in the first 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 in the third inning to make it 6-0.

“Kept the pressure on and then Big G took the air out of the building with one of his Big G shots,” Boone said. “Then [Rodon] took it from there.”