Soto, Judge and Stanton give Yankees first teammates trio of season with double

NEW YORK (AP) — Juan Soto stopped his slump with flair, joining Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge to make the New York Yankees the first team this season with a trio of double-digit home run hitters.

“It tells how much damage we can do,” Soto said after his first multihomer game for New York powered the Yankees over the Chicago White Sox 6-1 on Saturday for their first six-game winning streak since September 2022.

A day after his batting average briefly dipped below .300, Soto went 4 for 4 with a walk. He is hitting .317 with 11 homers, 37 RBIs and a .975 OPS, recovering from a 3-for-25 slide during a six-game road trip.

Yankees manager Aaron Boone noticed a change with some hard-hit balls in Friday night’s series opener.

“I could just see his body language,” Boone said. “Just really locked in today, all the way ‘til the end there. So just one of those days that Juan’s capable of.”