Yankees set pair of home run marks in win over Rays

And amazingly enough, that wasn't their only major achievement of the night when they beat the Rays, 6-4, in 10 innings.  

A game that once appeared to be another blown opportunity became historic thanks to Giancarlo Stanton and Austin Wells. They both went yard in the 10th, allowing New York to secure the win and also accomplish a first in Yankees history. 

After blowing a 3-0 lead they held going into the bottom of the eighth inning — the Rays scored one in the eighth and then two more to send the game into extras in the last frame of the ninth — Stanton destroyed a pitch to the opposite field. 

On the heels of his two-HR, four-RBI performance on Tuesday, Stanton stepped to the plate as a pinch hitter and came up as clutch as possible on Wednesday. He hit a two-run shot off a 3-2 count for his 15th home run of the season and third in two days.

Wells then followed Stanton's blast with one of his own, his 17th of the season.

The pair became the first Yankees to hit back-to-back home runs in the 10th inning in team history. 

But most importantly, New York's bats are on fire when the team needs to stack wins, and the Yankees have been doing just that as of late. 

New York is riding a five-game winning streak and is 8-2 in its last 10 games. This has catapulted the Yankees to just four games back of the Toronto Blue Jays in the American League East standings and 1.5 games ahead of the rival Boston Red Sox for the top spot in the wild-card race. 

No matter what happened on the mound, the Yankees were always going to live and die based on the pop in their bats. And now at 69-57, the Yankees are living up to their Bronx Bombers moniker more than ever before and at the perfect time.