For better or worse, the Yankees so often go as Aaron Judge goes.

And so it took just one momentous swing to come back from the dead, courtesy of their captain, who performed CPR to breathe life into their season and his own postseason legacy.

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In a game the Yankees once trailed by five runs in the third inning, staring down elimination, Judge crushed a towering three-run shot high off the left field foul pole to tie the game in the fourth inning.

The signature playoff moment that Judge had been missing opened the floodgates, as Jazz Chisholm Jr. followed with a home run of his own an inning l

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