NEW YORK -- It was a Judge and Soto game: Aaron Judge started it and Juan Soto finished it -- just the way the Yankees would draw it up every time if they could.

The Yankees' two superstars stepped up and sent the Bronx Bombers to a sweep of the Tigers on a rainy Sunday afternoon at Yankee Stadium.

Judge's home run off Tigers ace Tarik Skubal in his first at-bat back from his first career ejection and Soto's tie-breaking bases-clearing double in the bottom of the seventh were the big hits in New York's 5-2 win over Detroit in the series finale, which was called after a 56-minute delay in the bottom of the eighth.

"I think I just like the big moments," Soto said. "I just like to be up there, and it just gives me a little bit of adrenaline going. I want to get the job done so bad that, I don't know, it just happens."

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It was a big bounceback series for the Bronx Bombers after they dropped three of four games to the division rival Orioles earlier in the week. The Yankees (23-13) moved into a tie with the Dodgers and Phillies for the most wins in MLB (ahead of Philadelphia's Sunday Night Baseball game against the Giants).

Soto had the biggest hit of the day. After the Tigers rallied to tie the game at two in the top of the seventh inning, Soto came up in the bottom half with the bases loaded. Detroit brought in Andrew Chafin to get a lefty-lefty matchup against Soto -- but the matchup-proof Soto delivered the go-ahead hit.

"In any situation, he's about as good as it gets. But there's no question, he loves being in that moment," Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. "That's who he is as a hitter. ... I don't know if there's another level of focus, because it feels like every at-bat he takes is that battle."

Soto went down and got a low sinker from Chafin, yanking a line drive down the right-field line and into the corner, bringing home all three baserunners to put the Yankees on top for good.

"You watch him, and his routine is kind of crazy when he's trying to lock in -- which is every at-bat for him, it feels like," said Yankees starter Nestor Cortes. "He doesn't look up to the pitcher until there's 10 seconds on the clock, and once he steps in and looks at the pitcher, he's so locked in that you have all the confidence in the world in him."

Soto's at-bat against Chafin reflected, as do so many of his at-bats, his unmatched mastery of the strike zone. The sinker he pounced on was just below his knees, but Chafin had gotten a called strike on a bottom-edge sinker two pitches earlier -- so Soto knew he had to cover exactly that pitch.

"He tried to nibble again," Soto said, "and I just made sure I swung."

"He just felt so in-control in that at-bat, to me," Boone said. "He does a lot, of course, but the whole at-bat, I just felt like he was in command. … Just a great swing where he's in the strike zone with his barrel for so long."

Soto dealt the finishing blow, but Judge was the one who ignited the Yankees' offense.

Judge, who was tossed in the seventh inning of Saturday's 5-3 win for arguing a called third strike with umpire Ryan Blakney -- the first time a Yankees captain had been ejected since Don Mattingly on May 13, 1994 -- stepped back into the batter's box in the first inning on Sunday and promptly took Skubal deep to the right-field bleachers to open the scoring.

Judge stayed inside on a 97 mph fastball from the left-hander and hammered a 109.3 mph, 399-foot shot to the opposite field, his seventh home run of the season. He took a page out of Soto's book -- Soto, of course, is one of baseball's best all-fields hitters. And Soto, naturally, was happy to see Judge driving the ball the other way.

"Definitely, definitely," Soto said. "Not only Judge, but all of the guys, whenever they're going oppo. That tells you they're getting close to getting locked in again."

Judge has had a slow start to the season, but he was all over Skubal, who's emerged as one of the best pitchers in the American League. Skubal got him once for one of his 12 strikeouts, but Judge also ripped a double to the right-center-field gap off the Tigers' starter in the sixth inning, giving him his first game with multiple extra-base hits since April 3 against the D-backs.

"It's fun going back and forth," Judge said. "I got him the first time, then he comes back and strikes me out, and I was like, 'All right, I'll remember that.' It's fun competing against guys like that, especially a young ace of the team. I'm looking forward to more battles with him, that's for sure."

Judge said he's still not where he wants to be -- he's taken to saying that won't happen until he's batting 1.000 -- but Soto knows what he and Judge can do as a tandem.

"I'm not even worried about Judge," Soto said. "I'm always happy about hitting in front of him, and I know what kind of hitter he is."