NEW YORK — Aaron Judge’s game-tying three-run home run off the foul pole in the fourth inning of Tuesday night’s season-saving win over the Blue Jays was the biggest swing by a Yankee all year.
It can be argued that it was the biggest home run of Judge’s career. Finally, he has his October moment in pinstripes, a turning point in a 9-6 win in Game 3 of the Division Series.
But Judge doesn’t have a chance to bring the Yankees back from the jaws of defeat with their season on the line with one blast if the Blue Jays don’t make a costly mistake earlier in that fourth frame.
Judge doesn’t step up with two runners on base in a 6-3 win-or-go-home ballgame without the patience from the two hitters in front of him as well.
That inning started with an Anthony Volpe strikeout. The shortstop d