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Jazz Chisholm Jr. hit two homers and Aaron Judge went deep again Sunday afternoon for the host New York Yankees, who continued their potent early-season ways by routing the Milwaukee Brewers 12-3 to complete a three-game sweep.

Ben Rice also homered for the Yankees, who outscored the Brewers 36-14 in the series, during which they hit 15 homers — tied with the 2006 Detroit Tigers for the most ever by a team in its first three games of a season.

The 36 runs scored are a franchise record for the first three games of a season and the third-most in major league history behind only the 1954 Chicago Cubs (41 runs) and the 1978 Brewers (40 runs).

Judge, who tied a career-high with three homers in Saturday’s 20-9 win, gave the Yankees the lead for good with a two-run homer in the first off Aaron Civale (0-1). Judge is the first player in team history with four homers in the first three games of the season.

Rice hit a solo blast in the second and Chisholm laced a two-run shot in the third before closing out the scoring with a three-run homer in the seventh. It was the sixth career two-homer game for Chisholm and his first since last July 30.

Judge scored on a wild pitch in the sixth, when Austin Wells added a run-scoring groundout. Paul Goldschmidt laced an RBI single and Cody Bellinger lofted a sacrifice fly ahead of Chisholm’s homer in the seventh.

Goldschmidt and Chisholm finished with three hits apiece while Rice and Oswaldo Cabrera each had two hits.

Tim Hill (1-0) earned the win by striking out three over 1 1/3 perfect innings in relief of starter Marcus Stroman, who gave up three runs on five hits and one walk while striking out three over 4 2/3 innings.

Sal Frelick was 2-for-4 with a first-inning RBI single and Jake Bauers hit a two-run homer in the fourth for the Brewers, who are 0-3 for the first time since they opened 0-4 in 2015. Bauers also threw a scoreless eighth inning for the second straight game.

Civale allowed five runs on four hits and one walk while striking out two over three innings.

–Field Level Media