As Yanks weigh DH options, A-Rod, Beltran homer

ST. PETERSBURG — The Yankees’ designated-hitter dilemma seems like it became much less of an issue when Alex Rodriguez and Carlos Beltran both hit the ball out of the ballpark.

Rodriguez smashed a two-run homer for career blast No. 693, celebrating the moment with a little bat flip, and Beltran tacked on a solo shot that helped push the Yankees past Chris Archer and the Rays, 4-1, on Friday at Tropicana Field.

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“That’s my version of a bat flip, yeah,” Rodriguez said. “At 40, you don’t have too much cool style. All that has left me. I don’t know if I ever had it, actually.”

The homer was Rodriguez’s sixth of the season and his first since returning from a strained right hamstring.

Estimated at 440 feet by Statcast™, it was the Yanks’ third-longest homer of the year, following blasts by Aaron Hicks (446 feet, May 6 vs. Boston’s Rick Porcello) and Austin Romine (442 feet, May 25 vs. Toronto’s Chad Girodo).

“It’s encouraging,” manager Joe Girardi …

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