They still don't look like the Yankees, but for one night they hit like the Bronx Bombers.
A lineup missing former MVPs Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton and Josh Donaldson in the middle still slugged four home runs Monday as the Yankees capitalized on a get-well game with a 7-2 victory against the Oakland Athletics in front of 33,011 at Yankee Stadium.
If facing the MLB-worst Athletics wasn't gift enough for the last-place Yankees after six losses in the past nine games, the home ballpark provided another favor in the fifth inning of a scoreless game by rewarding Oswaldo Cabrera for a 339-foot arcing fly ball.
It gently dropped in the third row of seats just inside the foul pole for a two-run home run that would've been out of only three other MLB ballparks.
The Athletics (8-28) answered with two runs in the top of the sixth before the Yankees responded with Gleyber Torres' tie-breaking solo shot and DJ LeMahieu tacked on a two-run insurance blast.
The suddenly popping Yankees (19-17) saved the most surprising for last: Aaron Hicks' first home run of the season - for two more runs - in the seventh.
The switch-hitting Hicks started for the fourth time in a week - all against left-handed starting pitchers - but got a rare at-bat against a righty and cracked a 393-footer into the right-field stands.
The benched former starter was booed after a fly out earlier in the game.
Ian Hamilton was the unsung star, preserving a 5-2 lead by escaping unharmed from a two-on, no-out jam created by Ron Marinaccio in the seventh.
In his first outing since earning his first career save Saturday, Hamilton induced a groundout and stuck out back-to-back hitters with runners on the corners.
Nestor Cortes worked five clean innings but loaded the bases with no outs in the sixth.
Two inherited runners scored against Marinaccio, who was hurt by a weak infield single but rescued by an inning-ending 6-6-3 double play.
Marinaccio also allowed a walk and a single to start the seventh.
Athletics starter JP Sears, who was traded by the Yankees last August, limited his former team to one hit through four innings.
Harrison Bader, who has injected a much-needed spark since coming off the injured list on May 2, tripled into the left-center field gap leading off the bottom of the fifth.
Nerves set in around Yankee Stadium, however, looking at the light bats in the bottom-half of the injury-decimated lineup - and Isiah Kiner-Falefa promptly added to fears of a wasted threat by lining out.
That's when it started raining home runs - like a welcome-back banner for Judge, who is expected to rejoin Tuesday's lineup after a hip strain.