PHILADELPHIA — By the time the Yankees take the field next, their roster may look different for the third straight day.
But the one they rolled out on Monday night on the eve of the trade deadline looked plenty potent against the National League’s best as the Yankees won a third straight game for the first time in over a month.
In the midst of what Aaron Boone described as an “unsettling time” for his players, there was of course one Yankees constant: Aaron Judge, who crushed his 38th and 39th home runs of the year.
But Judge had plenty of help from a lineup that is beginning to look deep and dangerous again, this time in a 14-4 win over the Phillies in front of a sellout crowd at Citizens Bank Park.
After clobbering a season-high six home runs on Monday — three against Phillies ace Zack Wheeler — the Yankees (63-45) have now scored 40 runs over their last four games.
That includes three straight wins for the first time since winning four straight from June 9-12, shortly before their six-week slumber began.
Jazz Chisholm Jr., in his second game with the team and starting the first game of his pro career at third base, crushed his first two home runs as a Yankee (one off a position player).
Ben Rice belted his first homer of the second half. A surging Austin Wells drilled a two-run triple to help knock Wheeler out of the game.
Anthony Volpe ripped a two-run shot, his third in the last seven games after going 56 games without one.
And Judge’s co-star, Juan Soto, added a pair of doubles and three RBIs in another ho-hum night.
Giancarlo Stanton (0-for-4, walk) was quiet in his return from a hamstring strain, but he was the only Yankees starter without a hit as they combined to pile up 14.
The Phillies (65-41) are suddenly in their own rut, losing for the ninth time in 13 games on Monday, but at their expense the Yankees tried to claw further out of theirs.
The two wins the Yankees picked up over the weekend against the Red Sox at Fenway Park were all well and good, but any talk of momentum had to be cautioned by the fact that they were about to face the National League’s ERA leader on Monday.
And then they teed off on Wheeler, racking up seven runs and seven hits across five innings against the right-hander, who entered the night with a 2.55 ERA over 20 starts.
The run support was more than enough for Luis Gil, who struck out eight and allowed three runs across 5 ¹/₃ innings.