NEW YORK -- Whenever Aaron Judge and Juan Soto hit home runs in a game, good things happen for the Yankees. That was the case Wednesday night in a 7-3 victory over the Athletics at Yankee Stadium.

With the victory, the Yankees are 8-1 when either Judge or Soto hits a home run. It also marked the first time Judge and Soto hit a home run in the same game for the Bronx Bombers.

How does manager Aaron Boone feel when Judge and Soto are firing on all cylinders -- and in the same game?

¡°I feel warm and fuzzy inside. Kind of like some hot chocolate on a cold day,¡± Boone joked after the game. ¡°It was great. I don¡¯t think it will be the last time those two will homer together.¡±

Judge, who was hitting .180 before the game, smoked the ball starting in the first inning. With Soto on first base, it looked like A¡¯s right-hander Joe Boyle struck Judge out looking, but third-base umpire John Tumpane called a balk on Boyle, which gave Judge another chance in the batter¡¯s box.

Judge was on his way to the dugout when Soto told Judge to get back in the batter¡¯s box.

¡°It was a quick pitch,¡± Judge said. ¡°I didn¡¯t know what was going on. It was more Soto waving, 'Hey, go back. Go back.' The rules are the rules.¡±

Judge swung at the next pitch and hit a two-run homer over the right-field wall to give New York a 2-0 lead. The blast was No. 261 of his career, passing Derek Jeter for ninth place on the Yankees' all-time home run list.

¡°[The home run] is special," Judge said. "Derek had an amazing career. He has done so many great things for this organization. I hope I can do the same.¡±

As for Boyle, it was an outing to forget. He lasted just three innings and threw 85 pitches.

¡°Poor pitch selection [to Judge]. He kind of just got a free pitch that he got to see. It is what it is. You learn from it and move on,¡± Boyle said. ¡°The pitch clock was running down. I probably should have stepped off. I tried to squeeze a pitch in and felt like I stopped. Obviously, [the umpire] saw differently. I haven¡¯t watched the video yet, so I don¡¯t really know what it looks like.¡±

Judge ended up going 2-for-5 in the game. But he said his swing is not back to where it should be.

¡°It¡¯s always a work in progress,¡± Judge said. "I was happy to add two [runs] in the first. The boys took care of the rest. It was a great swing from everybody all night.¡±

In the fourth inning, Soto had a hand in the Yankees scoring two runs. After reaching base on a bunt single, Austin Wells scored all the way from first on a triple by Anthony Volpe. Soto followed and drove in Volpe with a sacrifice fly to center fielder JJ Bleday.

By the fifth inning, the Yankees had a 5-0 lead, thanks to a solo shot by Anthony Rizzo.

But Oakland made it a game in the sixth inning when Brent Rooker hit a three-run homer off right-hander Clarke Schmidt.

The Yankees added to the lead in the bottom of the sixth, when Soto hit a solo shot over the center-field wall off A¡¯s right-hander Dany Jim¨¦nez.

¡°Judge got us going tonight. Juan had a good answer back after the Rooker three-run homer to give us some breathing room there,¡± Boone said.

In the seventh inning, with left-hander Kyle Muller on the mound, Giancarlo Stanton scored on a sacrifice fly by Alex Verdugo.

Schmidt won his second game of the year, and he is pleased to have Judge and Soto on his side.

¡°When those two are going like that, it¡¯s obviously a special lineup,¡± Schmidt said. ¡°We¡¯ve seen it from Soto, and now Judge is getting going. ¡­ He has had a lot of good ABs recently. You can see he is starting to get going a little bit. It's going to be a lot of fun watching them both go like this.¡±