Watch: Sanchez blasts a pair, becoming fastest ever to 18, 19 career HRs

Another day, another home run for Gary Sanchez.

This one, however - a second-inning, three-run blast off Tampa Bay Rays right-hander Alex Cobb - may have earned the New York Yankees' inexorable rookie his own chapter in the history books, as Sanchez is now the fastest player in modern baseball history to smack 18 career home runs, doing it in just 45 games.

Sanchez, who leads all American League rookies in WAR despite playing just 43 games this year, has now homered in each of his last four games, too, and is only 11 homers shy of the Yankees' rookie record held by Joe DiMaggio (29).

"There are a lot of words: amazing, incredible, impressive," Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira told MLB.com's Bryan Hoch on Tuesday. "He's carried us. We're not even close to talking about a playoff berth if Gary doesn't come up and do what he does. That's the fun thing about power hitters; when you're on a streak like that, you can carry a team for a month. He's done that."

UPDATE: Yeah, um, he hit another one, giving him three multi-homer games in the past seven weeks. No other player in history ever hit 19 home runs in his first 50 career games.

(Video courtesy: MLB.com)