For a stretch of eight games over the past week, Juan Soto looked merely human.
He spent Saturday afternoon looking more like Juan Soto while supporting his pitcher that did not look mortal, either.
Soto crushed a pair of home runs in a four-hit game and Luis Gil struck out a career-high 14 in a dazzling performance as the Yankees cruised to their sixth straight win with a 6-1 drubbing of the White Sox in The Bronx.
On a day when Giancarlo Stanton and Jose Trevino also homered, the Yankees (32-15) were led by their two stud 25-year-olds to clinch a 12th series victory in their first 15 chances for the sixth time in franchise history.
During his six innings of work, Gil at one point fanned seven straight batters and ended up striking out nine of the final 10 batters he faced.
The right-hander overpowered the lowly White Sox (14-32) with a fastball that hit 100 mph and a changeup that routinely fooled hitters, lowering his ERA to 2.39 in nine starts as Gerrit Cole’s injury replacement.
Gil’s gem, which broke Orlando Hernandez’s Yankees rookie record for strikeouts in a game, continued a suffocating stretch for the rotation.
Yankees starters have now allowed just two earned runs over their last six starts (spanning 39 innings), fueling the club’s season-high winning streak.
Soto – 144 days younger than Gil – made sure the emerging starter had plenty of run support, clobbering 854 feet in home runs.
The star right fielder had been quiet of late, batting 4-for-31 in his last eight games before Saturday, but busted out of it by going 4-for-4 with a walk, three RBIs and his first multi-home run game as a Yankee.
Both home runs were absolute no-doubters to right field off White Sox right-hander Brad Keller.
Gil actually labored in the first inning, throwing 29 pitches and giving up an early run, but Soto quickly erased the deficit with a 417-foot shot.
Stanton ripped an RBI double before the first inning was over to put the Yankees ahead 2-1.
In the second inning, after Trevino smoked a line drive for his fifth home run of the year, Soto drilled an RBI single to make it 4-1.
Then in the fifth inning, Soto turned on an inside fastball for a 437-foot blast to make it a 6-1 Yankees lead.
With the two-homer day, Soto now has 11 on the season, joining teammates Aaron Judge (12) and Stanton (11) in double digits.