NEW YORK — Yankees slugger Aaron Judge hit his 50th and 51st home runs of the season in a 10-3 win over the Colorado Rockies on Sunday, putting him on pace to break his own American League home run record.

His 50th home run came off an 0-2 changeup by Austin Gomber in the first inning; it was Judge’s 18th first-inning home run this season, tying Alex Rodriguez’s major league record (2001).

Judge hit No. 51 in the seventh inning, on a solo home run by Juan Soto. Giancarlo Stanton homered in the next at bat, sending the sluggers back-to-back-to-back to give New York a 7-3 lead.

Judge, who hit a home run in the second inning and a single in the fifth, was forced to call it quits after his second home run.

“I didn’t want to go out there until (manager Aaron Boone) told me,” Judge said. “He gave me a look and a nod, so I went out there. The fans are pumped up. We kind of had a dip in the game. We scored, had the lead, they came back. They were down by one for a while and to be able to get a couple runs out there, it was a boost for the fans.”

It was Judge’s 39th multi-homer game and fifth this season. The Yankees captain has seven homers in his last six games, 10 in his last 13 and 47 in his last 102.

“It’s unreal,” Stanton said. “He does something special every day.”

Sunday’s two homers put Judge on pace for 63 home runs this season, which would break his AL record of 62 set in 2022. Judge first reached the 50-home run mark in his rookie year in 2017, when he had 52.

Judge also became only the fifth player to hit 50 home runs in three different seasons, following Rodriguez, Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire and Babe Ruth.

“A great achievement, but there’s more to be done,” Judge said. “This team has a big mission ahead of it and that’s what we’re all focused on right now.”

Rodriguez hit 50 home runs for Texas in two seasons in 2001 and 2002 and 54 home runs for the Yankees in 2007.

Sosa had four consecutive 50-home run seasons from 1998 to 2001, and McGwire did the same from 1996 to 1999, including his 70-home run season in 1998. Ruth had back-to-back 50-home run seasons with the Yankees in 1920 and 1921 and 1927 and 1928.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.