NEW YORK -- Aaron Judge shook his head ever so slightly after fouling a ball back into the seats, clearly upset that he had missed the first pitch of his at-bat. He wasn’t going to miss the next one.

Judge blasted his Major League-leading 53rd home run in the third inning on Sunday, a two-run homer off Red Sox right-hander Kutter Crawford that helped New York to a 5-2 victory at Yankee Stadium.

The Yankees opened a three-game lead over the Orioles in the American League East.

Gleyber Torres hit a leadoff homer in the third off Crawford, who permitted a Juan Soto single ahead of Judge’s Statcast-projected 445-foot blast that struck the glass of the center-field restaurant above Monument Park and landed on the netting underneath. The drive came off Judge’s bat at 112.1 mph.

Judge’s 132 RBIs are a career high, while he is nine homers shy of his American League single-season record of 62, set in 2022.

Judge entered Sunday pacing the Majors in homers, RBIs, on-base percentage (.453), slugging percentage (.687), walks (120), times on base (297), total bases (360) and extra-base hits (87).