All hail and all that. Aaron Judge certainly has earned your attention with force-of-nature play and humble attitude.

All praise to the Yankees bullpen, one high-octane flamethrower after another.

Nothing attracts attention quite like power and the Yankees have oodles of it up and down their lineup, all throughout the bullpen. If the 2017 Yankees were being sold as a movie, these are the areas that would produce the stars.

“We know the offense and bullpen are the strengths of our team,” CC Sabathia said.

But in these playoffs, in general, and especially in this ALCS, the Yankees rotation has defied the expected script, stepped center stage. The Astros showed up with the highest-scoring offense since the 2009 champion Yankees, and New York’s starters have unplugged them. Turned them off. Put one of the deepest lineups ever on mute. Houston’s offense is so quiet you can hear its bats drop in frustration.

The Yankees are on the brink of a World Series invite because they have done the baseball version of holding the Warriors to 80 points per game in a playoff series or restricting a Tom Brady offense to a few field goals.

“Coming in their bullpen was so much more heralded than their starting rotation and the starters have really stepped up against us and made good pitches,” Houston manager A.J. Hinch said. “We’ve lost a little bit of our offensive adjustments and a little bit of our offensive mojo.”

The role of mojo thief Wednesday belonged to Masahiro Tanaka, who was supposed to be the other guy in ALCS Game 5 against Yankee-killer Dallas Keuchel. He wound up the best supporting actor, stealing every scene he was in while for the first time ever the Yankees got to Keuchel.

“[Tanaka] was special again.” Joe Girardi said.

Tanaka performed an October master class, mixing slider, splitter and fastball — using his heat late in counts against his normal patterns — to blank the Astros for seven innings in a 5-0 victory.

The best-of-seven shifts to Houston and should the Yankees win one game at Minute Maid, they earn the right to try to win a 28th championship in a year that was supposed to be more about rebuilding than revelry.

The Canyon of Heroes is still possible for this team, and who would have believed that when they were down 0-2 to both Cleveland and Houston. But these Yankees have presented that alchemy of skill and will that elevates clubs this time of year, allowed them to rally to lead this series three games to two.

And no area has risen to the moment quite like the rotation, very good during the season and sensational now.

Remember, the Astros scored 38 more runs than any team this year (the Yankees were second), hit the second-most homers (the Yankees were first) and in the Division Series all but had the Red Sox hoping Jim Lonborg or Luis Tiant would show up for support by generating a .974 OPS in four games.

In the ALCS, however, Houston has just nine runs in five games, just five of them against starters. The Astro slash line against Yankee starters is .133/.184/.220. The slash line for Stephen Strasburg this season was .130/.161/.241 — as a hitter.

The Astros had a record 10 players with at least 250 plate appearances and an OPS at least 9 percent better than league average. That deep lineup has been turned into a bunch of Stephen Strasburgs in the ALCS by Tanaka, Sabathia, Sonny Gray and Luis Severino.

“Our starters are pretty good,” Girardi said.

None has been better than Tanaka, who pitched the Yankees back into the Division Series with seven shutout innings in a 1-0 Game 3 victory over Cleveland and replicated that Wednesday. He induced groundballs early, whiffed eight of the final 18 he faced and held Houston hitless in eight at-bats with runners on base, depriving the Astros of the chance to gain momentum.

Perhaps a day off, getting away from Yankee Stadium (where the home teams is now 6-0 in these playoffs) and getting back to Minute Maid will revive Houston. But the Astros have that helpless glaze right now that overcomes so many teams when a playoff series turns against them, when elimination begins to feel real.

The Yankees have warded off that sensation in both the Division Series and ALCS. They have revived, yes, with power from their lineup, heat from their bullpen.

But Tanaka and the rest of the rotation have emerged from the chorus to throw out lines — one beautiful pitching line after another — to drive the Yankees to the brink of a pennant.

They have been quite the opening act.