ARLINGTON, Texas _ Giancarlo Stanton's monstrous solo blast in Friday's first inning was the Yankees' 300th home run this season.
At Globe Life Park, Stanton destroyed Texas Rangers starter Joe Palumbo's hanging breaking pitch to left-center field � a ball that seemingly traveled further than the 440 feet estimated by MLB Statcast.
It was just the first of six homers in a 14-7 win on Friday by the Yankees, who had scored just one run in their last 21 innings during a two-game sweep by the Rays at Tampa Bay.
On Thursday night, the Minnesota Twins had become the first big-league club to reach 300 home runs in a year.
The AL Central champion Twins and AL East champion Yankees were on a collision course to meet in the best-of-five Division Series, beginning next Friday at Yankee Stadium.
And their back-and-forth battle to establish MLB's new single-season team home run record continued on Friday.
Cameron Maybin, Brett Gardner, Gio Urshela and Mike Ford also homered for the Yankees on Friday night, while the Twins had collected two more homers for a seasonal total of 303.
Gardner belted his 28th homer of the year, extending his own personal single-season mark for homers, and he was two ahead of Aaron Judge (rested from Friday's lineup) in their personal longball battle.
That was also Gardner's 10th home run in month of September, the most by any AL player.
Last season, the Yankees established a new seasonal MLB mark for home runs by a team with 267.
This year, they've set a new MLB mark with 14 players hitting at least 10 home runs.
