NEW YORK — The Yankees dominated the West Coast. Now they’re getting started in the East.

Behind an early home run from Aaron Judge and a solid outing by Will Warren, the Yankees continued their red-hot start with a 8-2 victory over the Miami Marlins in Friday afternoon’s home opener.

Judge delivered his first multi-hit game of the season and drove in three runs as the Yankees improved to 6-1, delighting a sellout Bronx crowd of 48,788.

The eight runs marked a season high for the Yankees, whose pitching staff has now allowed a total of only eight runs through the first seven games.

The plucky, pitching-rich Marlins (5-2) entered as one of baseball’s biggest surprises, and they punched first Friday when Xavier Edwards clubbed a first-inning solo home run against Warren.

But their lead did not last long.

In the bottom of the first, Judge pulled a hanging Eury Pérez slider deep into the left-field stands for a two-run home run, giving the Yankees a 2-1 advantage.

The 387-foot blast was the third home run of the season for Judge, the back-to-back American League MVP, who had gotten off to an otherwise slow start.

He finished 3 for 24 with 11 strikeouts during the Yankees’ season-opening six-game road trip to San Francisco and Seattle, but it took only three pitches in his first Bronx at-bat for Judge to homer.

The Yankees tacked on two more runs in the bottom of the second, despite not recording a hit in the inning.

Pérez issued four walks in the frame — including one to Trent Grisham with the bases loaded — and then plunked Judge with a pitch to force in another run, making it a 4-1 game.

The erratic right-hander was also charged with a pitch-clock violation and allowed three stolen bases in the inning, but Pérez managed to limit the damage by striking out Ben Rice with the bases loaded for the final out.

Judge finished 2 for 3 with the homer, a walk, the hit-by-pitch and a stolen base.

Warren, meanwhile, settled in after Edwards’ early homer and retired the next 12 batters, including four via strikeout.

Miami snapped that drought when rookie Owen Caissie hit a solo home run off of Warren in the fifth, cutting the deficit to 4-2.

That remained the score when Warren exited with two runners on and two outs in the top of the sixth.

The Yankees turned to left-handed reliever Tim Hill, who escaped the jam by getting lefty-swinging catcher Liam Hicks — who began the day as MLB’s RBI leader with 12 — to ground out harmlessly.

Warren (1-0) finished with a final line of 5 2/3 innings, two earned runs, four hits and six strikeouts without a walk. The 26-year-old’s ERA is 2.70 through two starts.

Friday marked the first time this season that a Yankees starter allowed more than one run.

But Warren’s outing was more than sufficient for a Yankees offense that tacked on a sixth-inning run on Tyler Phillips’ bases-loaded wild pitch, then scored again in the seventh on a Rice solo shot.

Rice added a two-run double in the eighth, capping a 2-for-5, three-RBI afternoon.

This is the Yankees’ best start to a season since 2024, when they also began 6-1.

The series continues Saturday night, with hard-throwing left-hander Ryan Weathers (0-0, 2.08 ERA) scheduled to make his second start for the Yankees.

The Yankees acquired Weathers — a former first-round pick and the son of David Weathers, who pitched for their 1996 championship team — from Miami in the offseason for a package of four minor-leaguers.

Miami is set to counter with right-hander Max Meyer (0-0, 5.40 ERA), a former top prospect.

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