It was as if Aaron Judge were trying to show he can do everything, too.

Sure, Shohei Ohtani can hit and pitch. But Judge, the American League home run king, can blast homers with his bat, steal them with whatever hand he has free and play Gold Glove defense in center field.

What began as a game between the Yankees and Angels quickly morphed into a faceoff between two of the most spectacular players Major League Baseball has to offer.

With his own two-way brilliance Judge won — with some help from Gleyber Torres and the club’s bullpen — as the Yankees survived, 3-2, in 10 innings on a chilly Wednesday night in front of 38,131 in The Bronx.

The Yankees walked it off in the 10th, when they loaded the bases against Matt Moore on the ghost runner (Isiah Kiner-Falefa), a Judge walk and an Anthony Rizzo hit by pitch, before Torres lifted a sacrifice fly to end it.

The Yankees had coughed up a one-run lead in the eighth, when Gio Urshela stroked an RBI single against Wandy Peralta.

Clay Holmes got through a shaky ninth by striking out Mike Trout with two on base, first-base umpire Will Little ruling Trout went around on a check-swing. Angels manager Phil Nevin disagreed and got tossed.

Ian Hamilton stranded the ghost-runner in the 10th, getting ground outs from Anthony Rendon and Hunter Renfroe, the latter of which DJ LeMahieu made a nice sliding play. Hamilton got Urshela to fly out to right to escape.

Torres and Hamilton played co-stars to Judge, who smacked a home run and saved two runs with a pair of remarkable plays.

To say Judge lifted the Yankees (11-7) single-handedly would be incorrect. He needed a second hand.

Two batters into the game, Ohtani blasted a middle-of-the-plate changeup from Jhony Brito that seemed destined to wind up in Monument Park. The 411-foot shot to dead center was over the wall when Judge, playing center field, brought it back.

Taking advantage of every bit of his 6 feet and 7 inches, Judge rose and used the heel of his glove to ricochet the ball back toward the field of play. With the same hand-eye coordination that helps Judge at the plate, he landed and used his bare, right hand to stab the ball before it hit the ground for one of the more remarkable outs of the season.

In the bottom of the first inning, Judge smacked a pitch far enough to ensure no Angels outfielder could deliver retribution.

After Anthony Volpe singled, Judge got behind 0-2 before fighting his way into a full count. On the sixth pitch of the at-bat, Griffin Canning missed with a four-seamer, and Judge did not. The 412-foot shot to left was his sixth in 18 games — Judge had four through the same span during last year’s 62-homer tear — and put the Yankees up 2-0 in a game they would never trail, but would get interesting late.

After Urshela’s eighth-inning single, Brandon Drury lined what appeared to be a gapper into right-center. With two outs and Urshela on the move, Judge sprinted to his left and laid out for another run-saving catch, this time with a dive that kept the game tied entering the bottom of the eighth.

The Angels continually could not get the big hit. In the seventh, Michael King lost Matt Thaiss to a walk and hit Zach Neto. After King struck out Taylor Ward, Peralta was summoned with two on, two outs and Ohtani at the plate. Peralta got Ohtani to swing over the top of a changeup for the third out and keep the Yankees in front.

Ohtani smashed his fourth homer of the season in Tuesday’s Angels win, which makes Thursday a rubber game for both the clubs and the very early front-runners for AL MVP.

The superstars went head-to-head for last year’s award in what was a battle between two players embarking on separate, historic seasons. Judge, who broke Roger Maris’ Yankees record for home runs in a season, seized 28 first-place votes en route to earning the crown. Ohtani, who knocked 34 home runs of his own and was the fourth-place finisher in Cy Young voting, received two first-place votes.

Judge has sent an early statement, but to be fair, he did need some help from his teammates to escape.

The Angels sliced the two-run lead in half in the fifth, when Brito walked Thaiss and gave up a one-out double to Neto, which would be Brito’s final batter. With two on and one out, King entered and induced an RBI ground out from Ward. With the tying run on third, King reared back and threw a fastball past Ohtani, who unleashed a vicious swing that spun his body around.

It was a bounce-back effort from Brito, who began his season with two excellent starts before a large hiccup — seven runs while recording two outs — last Thursday against the Twins.

In start No. 4, Brito allowed a run on three hits and three walks in four innings. His biggest moment came in the third, when Neto doubled and moved to third on an Ohtani ground out, bringing up Trout with two outs.

Ten pitches later, Brito escaped the frame with a diving changeup that Trout swung through.

The Angels finished 1-for-15 with runners in scoring position. The Yankees continually played with fire, and Judge continually extinguished the flames.