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Acce s the Yankees beat like never before Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees. TAMPA It is once again time to embark on another 72-hour craze over the legitimacy of the Yankees bats and how they are changing the sport. That is what happens when they club a franchise-record nine home runs, in case you had forgotten. For the second time this season, the first sparking the torpedo bat fad after the second game of the year, the Yankees crushed nine homers seven in the first four innings alone to cruise to their fourth straight win, a laugher of a 13-3 beatdown of the Rays at Steinbrenner Field. After sitting through a one-hour, 55-minute rain delay to begin the game (with a 9:30 p.m. first pitch), Giancarlo Stanton, Cody Bellinger and Jos Caballero drilled two homers apiece while the Yankees in total accounted for 3,419 feet of long balls. Thats why they are the Bronx Bombers, Caballero said. Explore More With the Red Sox and Mariners both losing, the Yankees (68-57) moved into sole po se sion of the first AL wild card, now leading both teams by a game, while jumping into second place in the AL East for the first time since Aug. 1 trailing the Blue Jays by five games. In the land of the Grapefruit League, the Yankees teed off on Rays pitchers like they were minor leaguers brought on the bus ride acro s the state. Except they were right-hander Shane Baz, left-hander Ian Seymour and left-hander Mason Montgomery, who combined to serve up the nine homers to Stanton (two), Bellinger (two), Caballero (two), Aaron Judge, Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Ben Rice. In the proce s, the Yankees became the first team in MLB history to record multiple nine-homer games in a single season. Giancarlo Stanton celebrates with Ben Rice after hitting the first of his two home runs in the first inning of the Yankees blowout win over the Rays on Aug. 19, 2025. Getty Images We hit nine? Wow, manager Aaron Boone said. To do it twice, thats remarkable. And there were some ones that were seriously hit, too. Just a really impre sive offensive showing against a team that obviously is not always easy to score runs against. The Yankees have now twice fallen one homer short of tying the MLB single-game record. We Jonathan Papelbon Jersey got to pick it up, Bellinger quipped. For the third time this season all of them in the opening frame off the bats of Judge, Bellinger and Stanton. The Yankees joined the 2024 Dodgers and 1982 Brewers as the only teams to hit back-to-back-to-back homers at least three times in one season, according to Statheads Katie Sharp. The other two times the Yankees have done it this season came on March 29 against the Brewers (when it was back-to-back-to-back-to-back) and April 29 against the Orioles. Judge was involved in all three while Bellinger took part in two. We have a really good offense, said Bellinger, who also had a four-hit night. Ebbs and flows of the 162-game season, its not always going to be pretty. But we all believe in each other and you know the talents there. Were doing a good job of putting it all together. Its been fun to be a part of. Judges 429-foot blast on Tuesday was his 40th home run of the season, marking the fourth different season in which he has hit that milestone. Jose Caballero celebrates with Aaron Judge after belting his second homer of the game in the ninth inning of the Yankees blowout win over the Rays. AP He became just the fourth player in Yankees history to do so, joining Babe Ruth (11), Lou Gehrig (five) and Mickey Mantle (four) with Judge being the only one in that group to accomplish the feat in his first 10 seasons. Stanton was playing right field for the first time since last Wednesday after sitting out the weekend series against the Cardinals with lower-body sorene s from playing the field three straight games so the Yankees could get his bat in the lineup. That proved prescient as Stanton remained red-hot, having now clobbered 13 home runs in his last 29 games. Aaron Judge belts his 40th homer of the season, a solo shot, in the first inning of the Yankees blowout win over the Rays. AP After the first-inning barrage, Caballero added his first home run as a Yankee in the second inning to go up 5-0 against his former team before Chisholms solo shot made it 6-2 in the third. Stantons second blast was a three-run shot in the fourth inning and Rice went back-to-back with him to push the lead to 10-2. Bellinger then went yard again for a two-run shot in the sixth before Caballero finished it off in the ninth with a solo shot. Jazz Chisholm belts one of the Yankees nine home runs in their blowout win over the Rays. Getty Images Go beyond the box score with the Bombers Sign up for Inside the Yankees by Greg Joyce, exclusively on Sports+. Thank you By clicking above you agree to the and . Enjoy this Post Sports+ exclusive newsletter! All of it was more than enough run support for Carlos Rodn, who grinded through the humidity to deliver six innings of two-run ball. That was not always a given on a night when he had already started to warm up before the rain delay he was just about to get on the bullpen mound when the tarp was rolled out but he remained locked in to provide some length. Its part of it, Rodn said. We got to get this game in. Its just part of the way we do things. Roll with the punches. Once again, [the offense] made it easy. Ryan Zimmerman Jersey