Aaron Judge’s iconic ALDS home run was basically…
Aaron Judge yet again did one thing no one else presently in baseball has achieved to present what is maybe his most iconic Yankee postseason second yet Tuesday evening.
Judge’s game-tying three-run homer that helped provoke the Yankees’ 9-6 come-from-behind win in Game 3 of the ALDS marked the first time in 2025 a participant homered on a 99-mph-plus pitch out of the zone in an 0-2 depend in 528 such common season and postseason pitches, Fox Sports’ Ken Rosenthal reported during the sixth inning.
The 99.7-mph offering Louis Varland that Judge smacked off the left-field foul pole marked the quickest pitch outdoors the zone any participant has homered against since data grew to become obtainable in 2008, the very best velocity pitch Judge has ever taken deep and the most-inside pitch (1.2 ft) he has ever swatted out of the park, according to Statcast data supplied by CBS.
“He does things mere mortals don’t,” Fox announcer Joe Davis said during the sixth inning.
Judge is really a particular participant and it’s not hyperbole to say that he would be the only participant in the majors who might have presumably homered against that pitch last evening.
With two on and one out in the fourth and the Blue Jays main, 6-3, Varland obtained forward, 0-2, after Judge fouled off a knuckle curve and then swung through a middle-middle 100-mph heater.
The pitch Aaron Judge homered against. Robert Sabo for NY Post
Aaron Judge homering in the fourth inning Tuesday. @MLB/X
Varland went back to ol’ No. 1 and tried to jam Judge high and inside.
Judge by some means managed to use his strength to flip on the ball and energy it enough to deep left to clank it off the foul pole for a game-tying three-run homer.
Judge homered on pitch three. MLB.com
“I felt like I made good contact, and I thought we had a chance,” said Judge, who went 3-for-4 with 4 RBIs and a stroll. “You just never know with the wind, if it’s going to push it foul, going keep curving or not. But I guess a couple ghosts out there helped kind of keep that fair.”
Blue Jays supervisor John Schneider tipped his cap.
“Give him credit, man, that was a ridiculous swing,” he said.
That homer breathed new life into the stadium and the Yankees tacked on two runs in the fifth and one in the sixth to drive a Game 4 on Wednesday evening in The Bronx.
Judge homering Tuesday evening. Ray Stubblebine/UPI/Shutterstock
Yankees followers have been clamoring for years for Judge to have his postseason second in the same method Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has dominated this collection for the Blue Jays.
With one “How did he do that?” swing on a ball not designed to be a home run, Judge modified the narrative after his expensive Game 1 strikeout that helped swing the competition in the Blue Jays’ favor.
Aaron Judge watching to see if his balls stayed honest. JASON SZENES/ NY POST
“I get yelled at for swinging at them out of the zone, but now I’m getting praised for it. It’s a game,” Judge said. “You’ve got to go out there and play. I don’t care what the numbers say or where something was at, I’m just up there trying to put a good swing on a good pitch, and it looked good to me.”
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