JUDGE & FURY

AARON, BOMBERS CRUSHING HRs AT RECORD PACE

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Led by the best baseball player alive these days the Yankees are on pace to shatter the club homerun record for a single season and top the Mariners’ 264 in 1997 which is the most by a team in major league history.

Entering Monday night’s game against the Angels riding a fivegame winning streak and the buzz created by Aaron Judge’s shower of power over the weekend in The Bronx, the Yankees’ 102 homers in 60 games were the most in the majors.

While the starting rotation — outside of Masahiro Tanaka, who started Monday looking to shake a horrific slump — has been sensational lately, the reason the Yankees had a four-game lead over the second-place Red Sox in the AL East was their muscle.

With Judge, who led the AL in homers (21), RBIs (47) and batting average (.344) going into Monday night’s action, showing the way the Yankees averaged 1.7 homers in 60 games. Should they continue to lose balls at that clip over the remaining 102 games, they would finish with 275 homers and claim to be the best home-run hitting team ever.

As for the Yankees’ record, it doesn’t belong to a lineup that had Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in it. Or Alex Rodriguez and Jason Giambi. Or Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris.

The 2012 Yankees, led by Curtis Granderson’s 43 homers, went deep 245 times.

Now, for those who believe there is such a silly thing as too many homers, the 1997 Mariners and the 2012 Yankees didn’t win a World Series. The Mariners went 90-72 and lost to the Orioles, 3-1, in the ALDS. The 2012 Yankees, who were the last Bombers team to participate in a post-season series, went 95-67, beat the Orioles in the ALDS and were swept in four games by the Tigers in the ALCS.

Like the 1997 Mariners, who were led by Ken Griffey Jr.’s 56 homers, and Granderson with the 2012 Yankees, Judge has plenty of support throughout the lineup. Jay Buhner hit 40 for the Mariners when they set the mark and Robinson Cano hit 33 for the Yankees in 2012.

“It’s not just [Judge and me] it’s everyone in the lineup. Everyone is hitting and everyone is hitting for power. It’s amazing to see,’’ said Gary Sanchez, who hit four homers in the previous four games and had 10 in 35 games. “Whenever you have a team where a lot of guys are hitting home runs you feed off of it. You want to help out, so it’s motivating.’’

Brett Gardner and Matt Holliday opened Monday night’s action with 13 each, Starlin Castro had 12 and Aaron Hicks was at 10.

And it has been pleasing to watch for the guy who makes out a lineup card that features six hitters with 10 or more homers.

“I said in spring training I thought we were going to score a lot of runs. I just had a good feeling with the power we had. And we’ve gotten contributions from so many people, maybe people you didn’t expect so much [from],’’ Joe Girardi said after Judge homered twice and Starlin Castro and Sanchez once in Sunday’s 14-3 beating of the Orioles to complete a threegame sweep. “It’s been fun watching. It’s great, these guys are power bats and when these guys get going together you score a lot. I felt like we had the capability. I’m not so sure I felt it would be this quick. I think we’re going to have more, too. I think we’re going to add to that.’’