The MVP long ago decided, Aaron Judge is taking pennant-race matters into his own very large hands. He took over the Subway Series, hitting early stage-setting home runs in both games, driving in half the runs Tuesday in Game 2, lifting the Yankees out of their inexplicable funk and restoring faith in a team that’s suddenly looking like a powerhouse again.

Judge’s latest work of art landed 453 feet from home plate, a 115 mph drive deep into the lower deck in left field at Yankee Stadium. Now let’s see how far he can carry this Yankees ballclub that started to show a few too many cracks over the past month plus.

Single-handedly, he turned a depression into a celebration almost as fast as he turned around replacement starter Taijuan Walker’s 3-and-2, fourth-inning offering. Judge is back on pace to top Roger Maris’ record, the Yankees lead seems pretty secure and all is right in The Bronx, at least for the moment.

Walker and recent Yankees acquisition Frankie Montas were locked in a scoreless duel when Judge pulled this one into oblivion, the key blow in a needed sweep for the Yankees, who spent the better part of a month searching for answers. This second straight 4-2 Yankees victory over the Mets before another keyed-up sellout crowd at Yankee Stadium had to feel especially good after the disastrous last several weeks caused doubt to creep into the Yankees lexicon for the first time in a year that began magically.

“He loves playing when the lights are bright,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said of Judge. “I think he looks forward to these games.”

Boone seemed to stop the losing with that forceful slap of the interview table after the last lost late Saturday. Then Judge began the winning, as he has done all year, and the Yankees are three in a row to the good.

If he has to, he will do it by himself.

He may have no choice.

On the Mets’ game-tying second run, Gleyber Torres became fixated on the trail runner, trying to beat Jeff McNeil back to the second-base bag as Pete Alonso scampered home. Alonso at first tried to hustling back to third after tripping rounding the bag, but once he saw Torres had lost sight of the situation, he ran home.

The Yankees were actually due assists on both Mets runs. Keith Hernandez had to be calling out the atrocious fundies.

It was a wild one both ways.

The Yankees scored their third run when Alonso failed to catch a high pop-up in short right field, as he turned every which way but the right way. Alonso had quite an eventful game. Earlier he broke his huge bat over his knee following a strikeout. He did not also break his glove, though we imagine he has that ability.

Alonso is probably the Mets’ MVP so it’s advisable for him not to try to have any more fights with his lumber. Judge, meantime, is the MVP of the Yankees, the league, everything. And by the way, he scorched a line single to drive home Jose Trevino with the insurance run, the final dagger in a two-day, one-man display.

It’s uncertain if anyone’s had a year like this.

Maybe Mickey Mantle in 1956 when he won the Triple Crown.

Or Carl Yastrzemski, who went on an impossible streak in the Impossible Dream season of 1967.

Or Barry Bonds a bunch of times. Although, we don’t really count those. Not in this space.

Boone thought for a while, and he went back 42 years to find Mike Schmidt, who happened to lead the league in all the very same categories — home runs, RBIs, total bases, slugging and OPS. Boone, whose dad, Bob, was on that same championship 1980 Phillies team with Schmidt, also recalled Schmidt finished with 48 homers, which happens to be Judge’s total now.

Others are mentioning Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig and all the historic Yankees greats.

“I still don’t believe it,” Judge said. “It’s been pretty wild.”

Judge, now on pace for 62 home runs, took over this series, and long ago he took over this season.

There are still those few holdouts who suggest the great Shohei Ohtani for MVP. Ohtani is the most amazing player. The most miraculous player. But he is not the MVP. The MVP is the guy who’s shown his own sort of versatility.

The guy who plays center field because they need it even though he is 6-foot-7 and 280 pounds. And he does it as gracefully as nearly anyone.

The guy who leads the league in every slugging category but will bat leadoff if called upon. And do it happily.

The guy who will fix anything that’s broken in the clubhouse. The guy who will talk and explain what’s going on when everything’s going wrong. And that was happening for a month, or more.

But now things are back to normal. And Judge is in the center of it, doing whatever he can to make things right and get the Yankees where they want to go.