Yankees News: Aaron Judge history, Enyel De Los Santos, Austin Wells

The New York Yankees did it. They defeated the Chicago White Sox in a three-game series that very much felt like it wasn't going their way and thankfully avoided embarrassment. After logging their worst lost of the season Monday, the Bombers came back to win two in a row.

On Tuesday, Juan Soto's three home runs and Nestor Cortes' seven shutout innings fueled the 4-1 triumph. On Wednesday, a late offensive barrage in the seventh and eighth innings saw the Yanks score eight runs in what ended up being a 10-2 drudging.

And it was capped off with Aaron Judge's 300th career home run, which made MLB history. When Judge blasted a three-run bomb in the eighth inning to put the Yanks up 9-2, he became the fastest player ever to reach 300 home runs, and the list he topped foreshadows what is shaping up to be a Hall of Fame career.

Judge needed just 955 games and 3,431 at-bats to reach the 300 HR mark. For games, he topped Ralph Kiner (1,087), Ryan Howard (1,093), Juan Gonzalez (1,096) and Alex Rodriguez (1,117). For at-bats, he bested BABE RUTH (3,831), Mark McGwire (3,387) and Kiner again (3,883).

That's why Yankees fans are constantly on this team about maximizing his prime, because he is legitimately on pace to be one of the greatest hitters in the history of the sport.

Yankees News: Aaron Judge history, Enyel De Los Santos, Austin Wells

There was also some light comedy that came with Judge's milestone homer. The White Sox, who had been getting murdered by Juan Soto, decided to intentionally walk the lefty slugger to get to Judge. Hoping to for the double play, the White Sox instead were dealt the worst possible outcome.

The Yanks will have the day off on Thursday before starting a three-game set with the Detroit Tigers, but we can't let another Brian Cashman gaffe get lost in the shuffle despite Judge's greatness and the team's offensive surge.

As we suspected upon his acquisition, Enyel De Los Santos was designated for assignment right before Wednesday's series finale. There was belief he'd at least make it until the end of the month, but he barely survived two weeks.

The Yankees badly needed bullpen help at the trade deadline and Cashman gave them ... nothing. Once again, his midseason acquisitions continue to keep this team from reaching its potential.

De Los Santos appeared in five games and allowed 10 earned runs. For a moment there he looked like he could be a somewhat useful "last guy in the bullpen," but after giving up seven earned runs on eight hits in 1 2/3 innings against Chicago on Monday night, that was the rightful end of the road.

Mark Leiter Jr. better start turning it around or else it'll be another failed Cashman deadline.

Onto better news, though! Let's finish this off with some positivity. Perhaps lost in the Judge/Soto dominance has been Austin Wells' surge. The rookie catcher has been a godsend in the middle of the order and has seen his season line rise to .257/.347/.426. His .773 OPS and 116 OPS+ are massive improvements over the rest of the struggling lineup.

What's even more impressive is that Wells just started finding his groove as he got more consistent playing time with Jose Trevino on the IL. Over the last month, Wells is hitting .342 with a .947 OPS. He has six homers and 23 RBI over his last 33 games.

Wells was quite honestly the savior on Wednesday. Without his two-run single with two outs in the seventh, there's no telling how this one would've played out considering the Yankees squandered countless opportunities through the first six innings after going 2-for-20 with runners in scoring position on Monday and Tuesday.

There's only a month and a half left in the season, but it's quite possible Wells makes a notable push to catch Baltimore Orioles outfielder Colton Cowser atop the Rookie of the Year leaderboard.