OAKLAND, Calif. — The Yankees tossed some final memorabilia into the stands Saturday in their final series at the Coliseum.
Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton and Anthony Volpe led the offensive explosion with monster balls that traveled a combined 1,287 feet.
In a stadium that has long doubled as a football stadium, the Yankees scored a touchdown and made a field goal to beat the Athletics, 10-0, and move one step closer to winning the American League East Division.
The win, along with an Orioles loss earlier Saturday, put the Yankees (91-64) back in front of the division lead by five games with seven games remaining and cut the magic number for winning the AL East to three.
The Yankees' 15th double-digit scoring game of the season provided more than enough running support for pitcher Carlos Rodon, who worked his way through a jam-packed field to hold the opposition scoreless through six innings.
The left-hander allowed five hits and one walk but has continued to perform well heading into October, lowering his ERA to 3.98 in his 31st start of the year.
Judge's home run was his 54th of the season, a 425-foot solo homer in the seventh inning to put the Yankees up 7-0.
Eleven years after taking batting practice with the Yankees at the Coliseum as a 21-year-old freshly drafted first-round pick, Judge continued his historic season.
He became just the second Yankee to hit 54 or more home runs in two consecutive seasons, joining Babe Ruth.
Meanwhile, the home runs from Volpe and Stanton were a positive sign for two of the team's most inconsistent hitters, who have little middle ground between good and bad, but when the Yankees play guys like Stanton and Volpe together, their lineup becomes that much deeper and more dangerous.
Coming into this series, Volpe had gone 5-for-44 (.114 batting average) with no extra-base hits in his previous 13 games.
But after giving up three hits on Friday, he continued his strong game on Saturday, blasting a 421-foot solo homer off former Yankee left-hander J.P. Sears in the second inning to take a 3-0 lead. It was Volpe's first home run since Aug. 3, snapping a 41-game homer streak.
Stanton has been similarly scathing of late.
After getting out on a double play in the first inning Saturday (with one run scored from third base), he went 5-for-42 with six strikeouts over his final two games.
But Stanton pulled out of his slump with a typical moonshot, hitting a 441-foot, three-run homer off Sears in the third inning to extend his lead to 6-0.
The Yankees gave Rodon the lead from the get-go, scoring two runs in the top of the first inning.
Following singles by Gleyber Torres and Juan Soto, Judge walked in the ninth pitch, loading the bases for Stanton and allowing Torres to score from third on a double play.
Next up was Jasson Dominguez, who singled through the left side to make the score 2-0.
After Judge hit a home run off right-hander Brandon Bielak in the top of the seventh, the Yankees added three more runs to reach double digits. Volpe scored on a fielder's choice and then Torres hit a two-run single for a 10-0 lead.
Eight of the Yankees' nine starters recorded at least one hit and all reached base safely.
Mark Leiter Jr. took over for Rodon in the seventh and pitched two perfect innings with three strikeouts before Tim Maza closed it out in the ninth.
