SAN FRANCISCO -- Juan Soto took three steps and stared toward the visiting dugout at Oracle Park, taking in his Yankees teammates as they erupted in excitement, tracking the flight of a go-ahead home run. He flipped his bat high in the air, thumped his chest and joined the celebration, prancing down the first-base line.

Trailing by two runs in the ninth inning against one of the game¡¯s top closers in Camilo Doval, some teams might have rolled over, turning the page toward another day. Not this one. Soto¡¯s second home run of the game sailed into the right-center-field seats, helping to power a four-run ninth inning and a 7-5 victory over the Giants, completing a series sweep.

¡°We¡¯re having a great time. We have great moments,¡± Soto said. ¡°We¡¯re just having fun; that¡¯s all I can tell you.¡±

The Yankees have won 22 of 27 games after completing a 7-2 West Coast trip. When Gleyber Torres lined Doval¡¯s fifth pitch into center field for a clean single, it marked a plate appearance that -- among several -- would qualify as what manager Aaron Boone described as ¡°some savage at-bats¡± to end the game.

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¡°That¡¯s what sparked it, right there,¡± said Aaron Judge. ¡°You¡¯ve got a guy coming out of the bullpen, knowing you¡¯re going to see 102 [mph], a nasty slider, two-seam. For him to go up there and have a great at-bat, it sparked everybody in the dugout. We said, ¡®Hey, let¡¯s go feed off that.¡¯ Next man up.¡±

Though it would be obscured by Soto¡¯s homer, the Yankees pointed to Jose Trevino¡¯s hustle on the next play as an integral ingredient. Trevino chopped a slow grounder and busted it down the baseline, narrowly beating Brett Wisely¡¯s throw from second to avoid a double play.

¡°Just give everything I have,¡± Trevino said. ¡°Obviously, I know who¡¯s hitting behind me and I know how important it is for those guys to get up to the plate.¡±

The top of the lineup got that chance against Doval, a heavy sequence for any pitcher to handle. Anthony Volpe pounced on a Doval cutter, driving a triple to the gap in right-center field. As Volpe dashed around the bases, Trevino was a turn ahead; ¡°I kicked it into the fastest gear that I have. Don¡¯t laugh,¡± he said.

Up stepped Soto, and after Judge claimed the spotlight for the first two evenings of this happy homecoming series, Soto would claim center stage in the matinee.

Having already hit a first-inning homer off Blake Snell and dropping a fifth-inning bunt that helped produce a run, Soto barreled a cutter over the heart of the plate, sending it a Statcast-projected 398 feet over the wall in right-center field for his 17th home run.

¡°That¡¯s what he does. We¡¯ve seen it all year long,¡± Judge said. ¡°He comes up in big moments, against one of the best closers in the game, throwing it up to 102 miles an hour. I had a nice front-row seat for that one. That was impressive.¡±

After Judge walked, stole second and advanced on an error, Giancarlo Stanton padded the advantage with his 1,500th career hit, a missile ground-rule double to right-center.

¡°It¡¯s nightmarish, trying to get through that lineup,¡± said Giants catcher Curt Casali. ¡°They¡¯re a great team. They¡¯re on a heater right now. I feel like we let one slip away.¡±

Watching the rally from the clubhouse after his fifth-inning exit, Yankees starter Nestor Cortes said he thought, ¡°We¡¯re going to keep seeing this for a while in the summer.¡±

¡°It¡¯s incredible the way the guys come in here ready to work,¡± Cortes said. ¡°Today we could have easily came in, gone through the motions and gone back home for an off-day. But these guys were in here grinding, battling in the training room and the weight room doing stuff to get ready for this 1 o¡¯clock game. And it showed.¡±

Charged with three runs over 4 1/3 innings, it was not Cortes¡¯ best day, but he offered his club a chance. Alex Verdugo had a two-run, game-tying double in the fifth off Erik Miller, who relieved Blake Snell when the left-hander exited with a tight left groin.

Then, as they would in the ninth, the Yankees refused to quit.

¡°I know we¡¯ve got something special in that room,¡± Boone said. ¡°Where that takes us? We¡¯ll see.¡±

Judge, the captain, voiced a similar sentiment. Having heard both cheers and boos during this Bay Area return, Judge departed satisfied with a weekend that met expectations as one to remember -- especially that last inning.

¡°I can go back over the years, how many times we probably lose that game, facing the closer up two runs and go 1-2-3,¡± Judge said. ¡°This team is different.¡±