NEW YORK -- Aaron Judge homered for the third consecutive game, Giancarlo Stanton also went deep and Gerrit Cole tossed six scoreless innings of one-hit ball for his 150th career win as the Yankees defeated the Guardians, 6-0, on Thursday afternoon at Yankee Stadium.

Judge’s Major League-leading 48th homer, the captain’s fourth blast in three contests, opened the scoring in the fourth inning. The American League’s frontrunner for the Most Valuable Player award, Judge is nearly on pace for 61 homers.

With the victory, the Yankees (75-53) clinched a head-to-head tiebreaker over Cleveland (73-54) should the teams finish with identical records as division winners.

Austin Wells lifted a fifth-inning sacrifice fly before Stanton launched his 21st homer of the year over the center-field wall. The Yanks have won 22 of 28 games against the AL Central, the best record of any team against one division this season.

Cole continued to pitch well, improving to 2-0 with a 1.17 ERA (three earned runs in 23 innings) in three August starts since receiving 10 days of rest following a July 24 clunker due to general body fatigue.

The right-hander issued five walks and struck out two, joining Justin Verlander (260), Max Scherzer (216) and Clayton Kershaw (212) as the only active pitchers with at least 150 wins. Three relievers finished the one-hit shutout.