FULL GAME: Judge delivers electrifying homer as Yankees rally for 2025 ALDS Game 3 win vs. Blue Jays
second only to Max Freed. He’s the hardest guy in the league to get a hit against, but he’s trying to slow down this hit machine offense. >> Yeah, I’ll say if he gets more than those strikeouts required is going to be in for a good game. Cuz you mentioned it, hard to strike out the Blue Jays. And he is going to rely on a lot of different ways to get him out. He doesn’t throw a ton of strikes and he’s facing a challenge team that presents a challenge, I should say, by the fact that they don’t swing and miss a lot. So look for his change up and his slider to be key if he’s going to have success tonight. >> Second straight time he’s taken the ball with the Yankees facing elimination. He pitched game two of the wildard round against Boston, went into the seventh inning, gave up three runs in a no decision and really has been good for the last two months. 10 consecutive starts where he’s pitched into the sixth and given up three or fewer runs. The lineup that he’ll face off with in game three looks like this. It’s a postseason record. 23 runs scored over the first two games of this series. It’s Springer, Schneider, and Guerrero. Alejandro Kirk, two home runs in the first game of this series. Drove in another run in game two. Don Varso had the best game that nobody’s talking about. Tied a postseason record with four extra base hits. Ernie Clement got the scoring started with a home run. Santandere’s back in there with Connor Falea and Andre Jimenez. It’s the tallest homeplayed umpire in baseball. Jordan Baker at 6′ 7 in back there. The only umpire that can go eye to eye with Aaron Judge when he comes up to the plate. They’ll call balls and strikes with the crew chief Dan Bolino at second. The Blue Jays one win away from their first trip to the championship series in nine years. The Yankees trying to come back from the brink again. Off we go with a strike on George Springer. two seam fast, four seam fast, change up slider and George Springer having a monster season. Biggest thing for Rodon is the fact that he has to pitch the first inning like tonight. I say it all the time against elimination. It’s not just another regular season game. You can’t approach it the same. You’re less room for error for your manager to leave you in the game. You have to pitch each inning like the ninth inning and just hope your team gets on top so that you can create some momentum. >> Here comes the one-1 to Springer and it’s inside ball two and it’s up and down this lineup. Hot hitters that are feeling confident and look way too comfortable. If I’m a Yankees pitcher looking at these guys, they look like they’re in a rocking chair. >> Yeah, a little bit more of that inside fast ball followed by a change up away. You’re going to see that. But you got to get him off the plate. Springer launches a fly ball down the left field line. And it’s hooking foul. And it’s not meaning you’ve got to hit somebody when you can’t get them out, but you have to make them uncomfortable to your point. And when the hitters top to bottom are having a field day, that means a you’re not making enough good pitches. B, they’re not worried about anything coming in so they can cover the plate away. >> Field day there. That’s more home runs than strikeouts in a twoame stretch. Another two two and a strike out to begin for Carlos Rodon. Carlos has learned how to manage that intensity. He came out last year against the Royals and spent so much energy in the first couple innings, he ran out of gas. So that you learn from experience and that experience is going to pay off well if he can get six innings or more for Aaron Boone. >> 32-year-old veteran, the best season he’s had for the Yankees. He’s inside with the first pitch to Davis Schneider. His first season was just a disaster by all measures. He was injured for a lot of the year. Had an ERA around seven. Up and down last year, but he won 16 games, an all-star this year. One ball and one strike on David Schneider. >> That’s the pitch right there at a 50% clip, which is not great for first pitch strikes. Even though that’s a second pitch, he’s got to get that pitch for strikes. Back door slider. And that will go a long way keeping these hitters who are on every pitch it seems like at bay. They’ll have to trust that. Okay, I can’t just, you know, he’s going to have the the fade change up away, but that back door slider is going to be huge. >> And that’s a arsenal that has changed through the years. Used to be just fast ball slider. He’s added the change up. He’s added the sinker. Much less predictable than he was when he got to New York. Here’s his one two. I was watching some film on this at bat and u Schneider had an epic 14 pitch at bat where on three and two I think there was a point where he fouled off seven in a row. >> Yeah, these guys have made him work. Numbers against Toronto not very good for Roan. Back door breaking pitch just misses. He’s made five starts against the Blue Jays since coming to the Yankees. He’s 1 and3 with a 666 erra. David Schneider said before the game, they asked him, “What is the plan against Rodon? What are we trying to do?” He said, “We’re trying to make him sweat.” The lefty’s payoff pitch is taken for ball four in this very aggressive lineup. Davis Schneider is one of the exceptions, one of the top walkers in the American League, and he has one for the first base runner. >> Well, this is the matchup, right? This is all eyes on Vladimir Guerrero and what he’s done here, what he’s done against Rodan. I mean, the numbers are glaringly in his favor. 10 out of 17 in his career against Carlos Rodon. >> How in the world are you pitching him? >> Well, the biggest thing is you got to sometimes give the man his due and just take singles to right field. At one point you’ve got to be able to get him off the plate and throw something in and then fade away if you can make a good change up, but he stays on the ball so well it’s hard. >> The one >> there go inside. >> Yeah, and that’s an effective pitch. Now, if he can hit with an off speed behind in the count two and 0, that’ll help. But what you don’t want to miss is off speed middle in with the type of swing that he has. That’s helps him lift the ball. Otherwise, he’s a line drive gap hitter with his swing. >> On this 200, he swings and it’s a fly ball to deep center field. GISHAM’S GOING BACK. HE’S DONE IT AGAIN. GLENN GUERRERO JR. HAS THE BLUE JAYS in front in the first inning. His 17th career home run at Yankee Stadium. Unbelievable this guy. Well, as soon as I I spit it out of my mouth, you can’t leave an offspe pitch over the plate. This offspeed pitch is exactly what he did. He sat back. Watch where this pitch is. Off speed, center cut, that swing, and that pitch is the reason why you can lift it. He’s not a launch angle type guy. He’s not going to lift a lot of balls in the air, but that pitch and location helps him get the ball in the air and right away right on script. He has homered in all three games of this postseason. >> Joe Kirk dicks downstairs and yeah, it’s the bat to ball. It’s all the hits. It’s the avoiding strikeouts. But where the Blue Jays have gone to another level is with the power beating the Yankees at their own game out homering New York 9 to one. >> Kirk’s got two of those bombs. >> Oh, and a strike on the Jay’s catcher. It’s like you’re you’re in a you’re in a tough situation if you’re facing a team this hot. In one hand, you can get a lot of quick outs on the first pitch if you make a good one. In the other, you don’t want to live in the strike zone. >> That’s in. >> So, making really, really good pitches is tough against a team like this because it puts pressure on you. And not to mention, you’re down two games to none. And there’s the numbers. It is This is shocking to a lot of people. It is just punch after punch after punch. And the Blue Jays have not let the Yankees up for air. >> You know who it’s not shocking to? Toronto. >> It’s just a little bit more than what maybe you could expect. But they’re not they’re not intimidated. They’re they’re just not. And this team has flourished at the right time under that leadership and a collective philosophy offensive that is along the lines of the Milwaukee Brewers. on a 2-2. Kirk chops it down the line. Foul. >> And so, just so people can understand, why can a team have regular season numbers and then maybe not mirror that in the postseason? Well, you’re facing different pitchers. You’re facing different guys and you can kind of slug them to death. When you get to the postseason, you got to be mechanically on and you better take advantage of mistakes because the pitching is too good. You’re not facing fours and fives. And so the Yankees in the last couple years when they go bad, it’s because they don’t make enough contact. >> And when you look at a team like the Blue Jays, the best contact team in baseball, you hope and you are confident that that’s going to translate in the postseason. And it has. It’s even been amplified in these three games with the power on top of it. >> Brian McMahon with an easy play, two gone. And we look back at the third home run from Vlad Jr. I mean, location, location, location, and this thing is center cut. And his his flow right now at the plate. He could be at Yellowstone Park and he’s going to feel good, but he’s at his place where he has thrived. And right now, that’s the best recipe for a team that’s up. Jump on the team that’s down early, created much pressure for the fans to take them out and for Aaron Boon to have to make decisions. Strike on Dalton Varia. didn’t even give the Yankees a chance to take advantage of moving home and getting the crowd, keeping the crowd in the game. Baro accused foul and it’s 0 and2. How about this guy having an alltime game ties a or ties a postseason record with four extra base hits and nobody’s even talking about it because of so many other things that happened in that game. But Dalton Baro two home runs and two doubles in game two. >> So they never changed it to a triple, huh? It never did. I’m sorry. >> You keep working on it though, >> Marshall. It was four extra base hits in game two after he had two of them in the first game. So, he’s sitting at six for eight. All extra bases so far. >> I felt like tonight’s game was going to have a lot of runs. It’s sure shaping up that way right now. >> Faro’s down swinging and book keys in this first inning for Carlos Rodon. But in the middle of it, as it has often been, Vlad Jr., doesn’t matter whether it’s Toronto or New York, he’s brought his best bat. Vladimir Duro Jr. said, “Coming into this postseason, I want to be Joe Carter. I want to be talked about like him.” Yeah, I’ve done it in the regular season, but I want to be a postseason legend, and he’s off to a pretty darn good start with three home runs in as many games. Can the Yankees lineup come to life in time to save their season? It is the same lineup as in game two. Aaron Boon said he wrestled over who to play at first base. He decides to stick with Ben Rice instead of Paul Goldman. Just could not turn away from Rice’s chance to change this game with one swing with his power. So Rice stays in there and bats clean up against Shane Bieber. And it’s not often, John, you have a Sai Young award winner who’s available at the deadline. But this was a tricky case because he was coming off Tommy John surgery. Hadn’t pitched in 500 days, but they got him and he’s been pretty darn good. He has. And he’s got that short arm delivery where his fast ball plays more than his velocity. Good curve ball. You see the slider and a change up. >> It’s out. >> And the biggest thing for Shane Beaver is going to be command. And some days after Tommy John, you’re just completely connected and some days it’s just not there. And that’s the process he’s going through. Oh, by the way, in the postseason, >> Gresham grounds this one along first for Guerrero. Takes it to the bag for the first out. So the leadoff man retired by Shane Bieber. And up comes Aaron Judge on base more than 50% of the time in this postseason, but he does not have a home run. He’s only driven in two where the Yankees have faced elimination. He’s gone deep five times in his career. That’s tied with Mickey Mantel and Yogi Barrow for the franchise record. He has personally struggled against Beaver, but that was earlier uh when Shane was at the top of his game before Tommy John. Kenny was talking about it. Judge perhaps one more chance here to make his mark to come up with a big swing, but like he was saying, you know, I’m doing what they’re giving me. Passing the baton. Yeah, Judge, you’d love to have him make a bigger impact, but he can’t do it himself. Nobody else around him has done anything either. Ropes a base hit into center field. >> That is the first base runner of the game for New York. Now, can they follow it up and do something >> right? And and I will piggyback saying nobody pitches Aaron Judge in the postseason like they do in the regular season. It’s totally different. So sometimes it gets magnified in in an adverse way. And I think for Aaron Judge, you keep giving him opportunities, he’s going to explode. And the problem is, and you mentioned it, he needs extra guys in the lineup to do their thing so he can continue to be the man. >> Well, if there’s been one guy that has done something, it’s the next guy here. and Cody Bellinger this time gets under it in center field. Varo Bieber gets Bellinger on one pitch. Typically what happens, and I think I say it every postseason, but when a pitcher gets the lineup card, he circles a guy. And the reason he circles a guy is he goes, “That guy’s not beating me.” Now, if the bases are loaded, it’s kind of tough, but the bases haven’t been loaded a lot. And really there hasn’t been a lot of traffic on the starting pitchers. And once they leave, the Yankees have scored some runs. Here’s Ben Rice. Grounded to second. Conor Fo can’t get it. And an air on Conor Fo opens the door for the Yankees here in the first. He’s one of the best defensive teams in baseball and that’s one of the reasons Connor F is in the lineup for his glove. But it lets him down right here. >> Yeah, he did a good job blocking it with his chest. The ball took a hop, but then he couldn’t locate it in time to make the throw. Watch this top spin right there. Hits him in the chest and then he couldn’t pick it up. And once he didn’t do that and you’re if you’re a break, if you’re if you’re looking for breaks and you’re looking for something to turn, no better chance than right now. Stanton getting something soft in the zone and getting this crowd to erupt. If he gets a breaking ball, mediocre in the zone, they could have the lead. It’s a fast ball. It’s a strike. Went into game two just 1 for 15 in this postseason when he chipped in two hits, knocked in his first two runs of the postseason. The last time Shane Bieber pitched in October, he gave up a home run to Stanton here. Two on, two out. The 01 pitch. That was a breaking ball. It was a really good one. and it stayed on the outer part of a plate. And that’s where if I’m Shane, I’m going to try to steal three more inches on the outside part. Not his make a turn type breaking ball, but it stayed on the outer third. It’s been one of the best swing and miss sliders in the game since he made his Blue Jays debut a couple months ago. It’s one and two on Stanton. The >> Yankees just one home run the first two games of this series. Only three, five games in the postseason. on this one. Two. Stanton fouls it off and stays alive. >> That’s three in a row. Now, if they want, they can go up and in with a fast ball. That’s three in a row in the outer third of the plate. And he’s executing. And he’s got his eyes way out there. Judge at second, Rice at first. One-two pitch. Line drive, base hit, left field. Stanton comes through to get the Yankees on the board in the first. Judge in to score. They take advantage of the two out air on counter for Lafa. 2-1. And the reason that ball didn’t go over the fence, breaking ball over the plate, but down. He’s a great breaking ball hitter in the zone. And that’s why I thought anything up it would have been a three-run homer run. But see how it’s down? He hits his head down. I really thought they were going to go fast ball up and in and it went slow again and four in a row was the key for Stanton to get that hit. Knuckle curve ball. Not a bad pitch, just too many in a row. Stant with his third run knocked in the last game plus. Tying run into scoring position. Jazz Chism to the plate. Well, Jazz is looking for a moment. He’s been quiet. >> That’s out. >> 2 and0 3030 regular season. Had a bunch of big moments throughout that career year. His first 4-1 in New York. Just one for eight in this series. Two on, two out, two 0. Chisum takes in the dirt for ball three. Ryan McMahon is on deck. >> Now, we’ve seen Aaron Boone give Jazz the green light. 300. Seen him swing three different times now lately on the 3- 0 pitch. You wonder if that exists again. I got a 200 hitter sitting on deck. I’m not giving him any room to swing that. took it. This almost feels like a 3-1 change up here after getting that strike on that part of the zone. >> Jazz on 3-1 takes two off speed. an air and two singles in this first inning to get the Yankees on the board. Corners get a head start. Here they go. Here it comes. Chisum lofts a fly ball to shadow left field. Davis Schneider is there. The Yankee stars come through in this first inning. It’s Judge with a base hit to start it. And after the two out air on Ker Fa, Stanton cashes in. Two to one after one in game three. Carlos Rodon goes back to the mound. Top of the second inning with Clement, Santandere and Connor Falefa coming up. Ernie Clement who’s known for his defense is known for his bat ball ability. He got it all started with a home run in game two. Number five, the Blue Jays hit on an 01 from Rhdan. He fouls it off and it’s 0 and two. That was a big run to say the least and the error was a big reason. The New York Yankees I just can’t explain to you as a player when you feel good about your season, you tie with the team and then your first two games is as if you’re not even in the same league with them. Like it just shocks you and you got to have something turn around to make you feel like, ah, there we go. Okay, we put up a four spot when it mattered and here we go. And that’s what it’s going to take for the Yankees tonight. Clement puts it in play to first. Rice has it. He’ll race him TO THE BAG AND CLEMENT BEATS IT OUT WITH A HEADLONG DIVE. ROCHESTER, New York’s Ernie Clement says he’s doing his best to convert all the Yankees fans there to Blue Jays fans. And a diving play right here has him aboard with an infield hit. Two things. First baseman way off Rodon falls to the third base side. He’s got a turn and go right away. And when you don’t do that as a pitcher, you have no chance to beat a speedy runner from home plate, even if he’s a right-handed hitter. So, hesitation a little bit by Rice, understandably, cuz he’s supposed to toss that to the pitcher. Yankees fans have seen one too many balls to the first baseman turn into base runners at first in the postseason the last year. Anthony Santandere >> takes downstairs. It’s the one change to the lineup, even though it’s a left-handed pitcher again that the Blue Jays are facing. We asked John Schneider about that. He said, “I’m trying to diversify my portfolio a little bit. I got a lot of contact guys in there. I wanted another guy that can leave the yard. The only guy that did more than Aaron or more than Anthony Santandere last year was Aaron Judge. Straight up with this popup and backing out of play. It’s a guy who started the scoring with a home run in game two. He starts it with a hustle infield single in game three. >> Now, there’s the one time you can make the argument the slide might have helped. sliding to first base is not faster, but where he was going and where Rice was coming into, it avoided any chance of a tag >> and it just ended up being the one spot where you could say a slide was was pretty good play. It was a very Blue Jays play. It was a very Ernie Clement play. You ask everybody about him and they say gamer, grinder, ball player, all those cliches. One, two on Santandere. Soon comes back home and it’s taken downstairs. Two and two. >> Yeah, Rice might have actually been better served to dive himself. Uh he went in feet first, which again once he realized his pitcher wasn’t going to make it to the bag, he was in scramble mode. High pop up in the shallow left center field for Anthony Vulpi and Santan. There’s the first out of the second. >> So if he dives right here, dives instead of slides, see how much slower that is. Foot is going to slow down when it hits the dirt. If he dives head first with his length, he would have easily beaten Clement. But again, that’s like split-second decisions. >> One-on-one out. Here is Isaiah Connor Faf went back to the Blue Jays last day of August. Only started seven games through the month of September. But here he is starting backto-back games in the postseason. A lot of that thought was his glove and trying to have the best infield defense that they could behind Shane Bieber. But is it his air that allows the Yankees to get going on a strike? A guy the Yankees are very familiar with. Spent two seasons here in the Bronx. extra special for him. He grew up dreaming of being the next Derek Jeter. A lot of kids his age >> on this one from Rodon. He takes it high. Now, one thing to watch in this game, even though Rodon is left-handed, they have stolen a lot of bases on them in the last two years. 38 is a lot. And so, not saying that the Blue Jays are the most flashy base stealing team in the league, but it’s it’s a thing. And neither one of these teams has attempted to steal in this series. And actually, across baseball, stolen base rate is down almost a third of what we see in the regular season. In fact, there’s nine stolen bases across the playoffs so far. 10 to one on Saturday for the Blue Jays. 13-7 in game two. Here they lead two to one as Odon deals a 2-2 instead of toss over. Carlos Rodon trying to keep their season going again as he did against Boston last week. >> Well, we figured coming into the series, the clearest advantage for the Yankees coming out of what they did in the wildard round was the starting pitching. And then you wanted to go one further would be the home run ability. hit 30 more than any other team in baseball this year, but it’s totally flipped. >> Yeah, it really has. The rest helps pitchers and so the Blue Jays had one advantage, they had rest. Um the Yankees had to go full tilt in the threeame series, so that has something to do with it, but I never would have predicted that kind of disparity. Another popup and a routine play for Anthony Vulpi. Two gone in the second. And now the nine hitter Andre Simenez. Yankees have not led in this series. The Blue Jays get going right away with Vlad’s first home run and have not looked back. Even Jimenez, who came into the postseason the worst hitter in the American League this year, has chipped in. He’s had three hits and has knocked in a pair the first two games. >> And he will do a lot of that against left-handed pitching. It’s just a tough angle, a lot of swing and miss when he’s facing a left-handed counterpart on the mound. >> Then Carlos throw down. He’s already thrown 42 pitches in here and actually hit him >> and he’s going to get George Springer to the plate here. It was a two-out air on the Blue Jays that opened the door for the Yankees. Here’s a two-out hit by pitch to the nine hitter. >> You know, the other thing I’ve learned about playoff baseball is it’s hard to get three clean outs in an inning. And you you kind of feel like that’s if you’re going to get hit. Oh my goodness. That’s the way to get hit. Like that’s just a little clip there. Maybe base without the bruise. And uh >> what I’m saying is >> the batter was hit by the pitch. New York has challenged and the previous play is under review. >> Clean innings are like gold. You go one, two, three, it’s gold. And we’ve seen some other series where that’s been more prevalent than this one because we’ve had some hitters. >> Woo, that’s close. Play reviews presented by Zoom. >> I got to believe there’s had to be a little click or something that you know, obviously we’re not going to hear, but doesn’t it kind of look like it changes direction slightly? >> Time time right here. First base. >> I mean, the umpire right away had to hear some kind of click. So, these are always tough. >> Didn’t he have like a white guard? >> He did. >> And a white baseball. >> Yeah, >> that’s uh >> that’s never great. >> And again, the call on the field is that he was hit. >> Hard to overturn here. And if the call does stand, you have George Springer, who hit 32 home runs during the regular season coming to the plate here. I will say this while we got a chance because we never get to talk about it. I don’t think we’ve said one time about a home plate umpire call of a strike or ball that has been come into play where it’s been. You know what I’m saying? Like they’ve done a great job so far behind home plate. Lot of pitches. I mean >> have to review the ruling on the field stands. The batter was hit by the pitch. New York will have one challenge remaining. >> All right. So they do have to deal with Springer after those 32 home runs in the regular season, homerred in the second game in Toronto, his 20th career postseason home run, which ties him with Derek Jeter for fifth all time. I don’t know if if uh Mr. Springer is going to be sitting on a breaking ball, but that’s going to be how you get him out. And the swing and miss on the breaking ball that got the first strike out. It’s going to be interesting to see how he attacks him here on this first pitch. Clemen at second, Jimenez at first. Throwdon to Springer >> with a breaking pitch low and the first base run reached on an infield hit. The door cracked open a little bit more here with this two-out hit batter. >> Popped up. Rodonald will get out of this. Rice puts it away. Sends it to the bottom of the second. Yankees got a run in the first inning taking advantage of the air. Shane Bieber goes back to work with the bottom of the order coming up. >> Ryan McMahon, the Yankee third baseman, cracks the first one in the air to deep center field. Varo’s got room though. One pitch, one out in the second. For more on Shane Bieber, we go down to Kenny. Well, Joe, all things considered, Bieber’s comeback from Tommy John surgery in April 2024, has been remarkable. But Bieber doesn’t see it that way. Even though his results, 3.57 RA in seven starts, have been quite good. He isn’t getting as much swing and miss as he would like, his consistent execution isn’t there. But all that is to be expected. Pitchers coming off Tommy John, and John knows this, generally are much better in their first full season after the surgery. Bieber because he was rehabbing last off season hasn’t had a break in 18 months. >> On a sai young in 2020 with Cleveland, I think the most impressive thing is that even with the up and down field that he’s had, he’s third in strikeout to walk ratio. >> Well, I was surprised also why as good as he was, he wanted to pick up more velocity in theory and then unfortunately got hurt because the way he throws, velocity is not as important. He’s got a a fast ball that plays up because of the way that he throws it and it’s kind of that short arm delivery. And I I was just shocked when I saw that. Well, it was a year and a half ago or two years ago when he was trying to pick his velocity back up and oh, pick that back up as Vulpi goes down swinging. Third strike. He’s not going to need that for a bit for Anthony Vulpi. his ninth strikeout, his last 13 times up. >> That pitch right there will get better next year. And I know he got a swing and miss, but it it did not turn the corner and stayed in the strike zone too long. And that’s the consistency that will come back. Strike on Austin Wells. The last time the Yankees were down in a series, game two last week against Boston. This was the guy that had the game-winning hit in the eighth inning, scoring Jazz Chisum all the way from first base. No. And two Bieber rocks and fires. He fouls off change up stay alive. It’s change up. It’s been a key form against left-handed hitters. He been trying to find a grip pretty much his whole career. Never had one that he liked, but found one coming back from Tom John and left-handers hitting just 156 against him as he’s added that pitch in. Watch out. One, two. >> I won’t try and do it here with two outs, but next inning when Shane’s out there, I’ll try to show people at home why his short arm action plays. It’s not the traditional long, you know, release point ball out of the glove. He just hides it well. And I just think that’s why he’s been so successful. Well, that’s why I didn’t think velocity was the end all for him. 30-year-old out of Laguna Beach, California in his seventh year. Swing and a miss from Wells for strike three. Back to back Ks to finish off the score of second. Welcome back to Yankee Stadium. Blue Jays leading the Yankees two to one. Here with Blue Jays manager John Snder. John Vlad Guerrero, three home runs in three games after a difficult September. >> What is going on? I mean, this is this is what Vlatty can do, you know, when he’s locked in. Um, he’s taking some really good swings, you know. I think he’s swinging at good pitches, too. Um, you know, I’ve seen him I’ve seen him hit for a while and, um, when he gets pretty locked in, he’s pretty good. >> What is it about him and the Yankees and Yankee Stadium? >> Not sure. You know, I think it’s one of those places where he’s comfortable, sees, you know, sees the ball well. Um, and I think once you kind of have some success, it can carry over, you know, game after game or series after series. Um, but I mean he’s um he’s just he’s in a really good spot right now. >> Shane Bieber, obviously the error in the first inning hurt him, but what are you seeing so far, >> man? I think he’s throwing the ball well. Um, kind of looking for his his curveball and slider and and change up really the secondary stuff to be where it is. Um, can’t give this team extra outs, you know what I mean? And um, you know, I thought he did a good job of kind of navigating that. And that ending right there was really good with the secondary stuff. >> John, thanks a lot, Joe. Back to you. All right, Kenny as David Schneider rips one down the left field line into the corner and he’s got a leadoff double. So Sch Snider’s been on both times and the Blue Jays in business here in the third against Rodan. That one hung and to a hitter who carries his hands over the plate and he gets extended. Change up that cuts. Change ups are supposed to fade away from right-handed hitters and that one came over the middle of the plate. He said, “Oh boy.” >> Well, they they’re not going to let Mr. Guerrero hit. >> They put him on after his 17th career home run at Yankee Stadium. We take a look at the player profile sponsored by Liberty Mutual. I think they just handed this graphic to Aaron Boon and he said, “Put him on.” He’s been the best hitter at Yankee Stadium the last 5 years. >> Well, it’s the only play really. got a catcher who can hit uh but also doesn’t run very well and you get little off speed pitch on the outside outside part of the plate and you got a ground ball recipe for a double play. But you got to make the pitch. Got a chase strike one. Now, both times the Yankees have erased a 20- deficit in the division series. A dazzling starting pitching performance has led the way. 2001 division series, Mike Mucina in Oakland, down 200, seven scoreless in a one- nothing win. And then in 2017 against Cleveland, it was Tanaka firing seven scoreless and another one to nothing win. >> They want Jazz to move over more cuz that’s the place he can go to the second base. ball. >> He’s watching the dugout and they’re trying to get his attention because he’s playing up the middle and we talked about the ability that Kirk has to use all parts of the field, especially that huge gap and they’re trying to get Jazz to move over. He’s saying no and now he’ll relent. Line drive the other way. Judge is there. Kirk retired. One gone in the third. >> Well, he tried to do it and he hit a missile to Aaron Judge. And it brings up Daltton Vo struck out his first time. Six out of nine in this postseason. And you may be saying, where’d this come from? But when he was on the field this year, he was as powerful as anybody. Missed a lot of the season. He had shoulder surgery in the offseason, so didn’t debut until a month in. and then he injured his hamstring and missed two months. But the only guy that had a higher slugging percentage than Dalton Vo was Aaron Judge. Correct me if I’m wrong. I believe he said that he’s always trying to hit a ball back up the middle to the pitcher. He’s not trying to hit home runs. But the philosophy makes sense. You get it out front, you get your home runs. >> 20 of them in 71 games this season. guy who >> John Schneider was telling us is one of the leaders down there. One of the guys that clubhouse loves. He’s got Schneider at second. Guerrero at first as this 1-1 from Rodon comes home. Baro cracks it in the air to center field. Here comes Gisham. It will BE A SLIDING TRY FROM BELLINGER, BUT HE COULDN’T catch it. SCHNEIDER’S HEADED FOR THE PLATE. CHISUM THROWS LATE AND HE SCORES with a dive. No blink from the Blue Jays. >> Through to second trying to get Guerrero forced. It was late. Everybody’s safe and it’s three to one. Well, this is an incredible effort by Bellinger. He covered so much ground and just overreaches, catches the heel, and then right here once he gets to third, he just keeps going. And Jazz thinks there’s no way he’s going home and really never took a look and it was too late once he got the ball in. Blue Jays lead the majors in taking extra bases. Schneider takes one three to one here in the third. And now Ernie Clement. Man, is he aggressive. >> He is. The one thing in this game, and I I know it happens, right? There’s human error and there’s human >> play in the game. You can’t assume anything. It’s the one time of the year that you cannot assume anything’s going to go the way you think. Regular season, maybe get away with it. The postseason, as you know, and we’ve seen, everything gets magnified, right and wrong. And the Yankees are a much different team than they were last year. This is some games plagued them with some lacks of, you know, some defensive lapses, but that for the most part has not been the case. >> I think that’s one of the frustrating things for Yankees fans to watch here in this division series is that it was looking so good down the stretch. All the things that had bugged them in the past seemed to be pointing in the right direction. Perhaps though some fool’s gold and what they did down the stretch. Taking a look at the teams that they played, all below 500 teams as they won 11 of the last 12 games to finish in the tie and inspire a lot of confidence that they were going to be much different. Ready to make a deep run. It’s a highf fly ball off of the bat of Clement into the left field corner for Bellinger. Does he have room? Not quite. Well, Jazz Jazz thinks under no circumstances could he be going right. And that’s the assumption part. And more times than not, he’d probably be right. Well, watch when he gets the ball. Okay. There’s no thinking at all like what? He’s going and by that time it’s too late. And so he’s shocked because he’s like, “How could you go on a ball that’s being dove for, right?” So he’s shocked, but it’s it’s again it’s it’s a part of the game you can’t can’t get yourself in that position. Ground ball through the left side and a base hit and Guerrero’s going to charge for the plate. Bellinger’s throw is not in time. Guerrero slides in ahead of the tag. Four to one Blue Jays. >> The Blue Jays are playing aggressive. They’re playing confident. I think McMahon moves over to the left side of third base right when this pitch was made. That’s the difference. And look at Guerrero. The difference is last year I don’t think he scores on this play. He’s in much better shape. And Bellinger puts this throw right on the money. >> Ernie Clement, five out of his last six and he’s knocked in five. Contributions all over the place again for the Blue Jays. Vlad playing with joy. Dalton Bara was talking about Vlad Jr. what he’s looked like these first couple games and he said, “You know what? When Vlad is feeling right, he’s like a kid out in the backyard that just loves baseball. >> That is what Vlad has looked like through this series. >> I’m telling you, I think the pitch selection caused McMahon to move just a fraction towards the line, anticipating a ball pulled. And that little movement to what I thought I saw was the difference between him diving and catching and keeping it in front of him. So, the little things right now, everything going Toronto’s way in this series. You see Fernando Cruz has started to warm as the infield comes in here and Santandere comes up trying to break it open. >> There is another two strike hit for the Blue Jays. >> Watch this. See how he moves over right there? That’s the difference. He was in a good spot, but that’s on the based on the pitch selection. And I’m telling you, I had to look twice to see if that was Guerrero running home cuz he was flying. >> And there was no doubt that he was going to go on a strike on Santandere. Those feel like two massive runs sitting out there at second and third. Yankees offense has not shown much. Three-run deficit already feels large. Woo! >> That was the pitch. Sant there is trying to get the ball in the air of course right infield in. He wants a pitch that he can get lifted. This was it. Maybe just change up fooled him was supposed to fade away. And again, another one just catching the middle of the plate. You can tell that release point is off just a hair. Odon, one of the top strikeout guys in the league, could use one right here. His one two is chop foul. Starting to say there’s another two strike hit from Clement. The league average with two strikes this year is 170. The Blue Jays in this series are hitting 325 with two strikes. >> Well, as a team, I mean, they’re they’re heading towards a record team batting average. I know only three three games but man first of all for Vladier Vladimir Guerrero he gets a great jump and he makes a good turn. No movement that takes him away from the bag >> and then a dive superman. >> That is how you do it. >> He is Superman. Baru at third, Clement at second. Another one two from Carlos Rodon to Anthony Santandere. Yankees starting pitching that was so good in the wildard round. They have not had a guy get an out in the fourth inning. There are questions about Luis Hill game one, but you felt so good about Max Freed going into game two. He’s tagged for seven runs, fails to get an out in the fourth. And now Rodan is up against it. Santandere sends one down the right field line and foul. This be the eighth pitch coming up to Santandere trying to add his imprint to this Blue Jays offense. That’s past first and into right. Faro’s in. Here comes Clement. Throw goes into second. It is six to one Toronto. It’s another two strike hit. It’s Anthony Santandere going the other way and it’s Aaron Boon going to the bullpen with one out in the third. Miss the opponent. It’s gone from O Canada to oh boy to oh no. New York looking like they’re sitting on thin ice as these Blue Jays have kept on trucking. Six to one in game three as they look for the sweep. Cody Bellinger is all Yankees right now. Carlos Rodon leaves the mound as did Heel as did Max Freed before getting it out in the fourth inning. It is 6 to1 Blue Jays and the bullpen goes to work already. Cruz is on the face of pinch hitter Addison Barger up there pinch hitting for Isaiah Connor Falefa. Well, twice the Yankees in their history have come back from down 20. We mentioned that in a best of five series. One of those 2001 in Oakland. And I asked Derek Jeter how they were able to do that. And he said, “You focus on one pitch at a time, one game at a time. They were so good at doing that already. a team that had won all those championships leading up to that. He said it was unspoken. They just knew if they did what they always do, they’d have a shot and they put the pressure on the A’s right away. They won that third game one to nothing. Had the edge from there, blew them out in game four. And the other thing Derek said was, “Watch out for the crowd cuz they’re going to have the crowd behind him at the start of game three trying to push them forward.” But that’s going to be a sensitive thing. you’re going to lose the crowd and it could snowball on you if you don’t start fast. Not only have they not started fast, they’ve gotten blitz just like they did in the two games in Toronto. >> Yeah. And it’s the simple things again, you know, not taking anything for granted and literally the game is easier when you do one pitch at a time, one at bat at a time, one pitch, you know, but it takes mentally longer to do. And so I I used to never like this statement that I hear a lot of players say when they were down in the brink elimination. Oh, we got nothing to lose. The pressure’s on them. You know, yeah, you have everything to lose. No, it’s harder when you’re in elimination. Or you hear people say, we’ll win when we have to. Well, then if that’s the case, you wouldn’t have been down 2. >> Chargers down on strikes, two away. But there’s no bigger place for success and failure than New York. I mean, it’s magnified. And these guys have been having a lot of pressure on them the last couple years. They get to the World Series last year. High expectations when they started off the year dominating most of the year and then they fell back into a real big funk and then chased all the way back to, you know, the Blue Jays. Here they are trying to fight for their playoff lives. Andre Sam takes upstairs for a ball. Mennez was hit by pitches first time on this 10. Cracks it on the ground to second. Jazz Chisum’s got it and that’s the inning time. 7:00 time slot on FS1. Trent Gish top of the Yankees order. Yanks try to chip away. Still with a long ways to go in this game. Defensive changes. Addison Barger after pinch hitting stays in and plays third and Ernie Clement goes over to second. One ball, one strike on Gisham, who hit 34 home runs during the regular season, but is just three for 21 in the post. >> Yeah, it’d be uh crucial from this point on that he get on base a couple times in the remainder of this game. >> He was uh Aaron Boon’s gut feeling guy at Clickford today. Yeah, and I I like him too based on what he’s facing. And the Yankees aren’t facing a split finger tonight. Thank God the Yankees are saying cuz they’re over on the split finger over the first two games against the Toronto Blue Jay starters. And not that Shane Bieber is anything fun to hit off of, but they got to feel like they are glad to see a more conventional pitcher. >> Anybody but you savage. I mean, they got to be saying coming out of that game, literally anybody but him. >> I’m still shaking my head. I don’t think people appreciate >> how hard and how incredible that game was for that young man. And he looked like he’d been doing it for a long time. >> And when you put Gauzeman and him together, you were saying earlier today that it’s as impressive of a back-to-back starting pitching performance as you remember seeing. >> Yeah, because they’re going against a great offense. They executed so perfectly with no mistakes. That is so rare. And when you’re going AC when you’re going against a team like the Yankees and you don’t give up a run, but that one run in the sixth, man, that is that’s doing something. Three balls and two strikes on Trent Gisham. I’m not sure what the conversation is here between Jordan Baker and the crew chief Dan Bolino. Looks like Dan may let us know. >> The ruling on the field is the catcher did not inter interfere with the batter. The previous play is under review as the Yankees have challenged. >> All right. So, let’s see. >> Yeah. Well, you got to know they had to they had 100% of it. You’re not going to challenge and use your second challenge this early in a six to1 game if you’re not 100% sure they’re going to get it. I mean, you would never do this, right? like you wouldn’t take a chance and not have >> that ability to retain it even though the seventh inning on. >> Replay review is presented by Zoom. These are up across baseball. Catchers interference with the emphasis on pitch framing and catchers playing closer to the plate than ever. This is going to cost Kirk right here as Gisham is putting together a tough at bat there trying to set the table for Judge who get a little bit of help to do just that. Now, the ball was in the glove and then he hit the the glove, but watch the ball go in the glove. And this is a check swing. It’s in the glove and then he hits the back of the catcher’s m Trent saying, “Yeah, it’s it’s in the glove cuz his glove’s sticking out in front of my back.” After review, the ruling on the field stands. It was not catchers interference. The batter will remain at bat and a three-point play. >> New York has no >> The ball is in the glove cuz he stuck the glove in front of the bat. >> Yeah. >> I’m wondering the same thing, Aaron. I mean, >> the intent to hit the ball, I guess, was not there. And he didn’t make a full swing and the ball. Nobody can believe it on the Yankees side. And and Aaron sharing his frustration with this umpire crew. The call comes from the replay center. So, he’s killing the messenger here, but I would too. And now he hopes that Tran Gisham can earn his way aboard. A three and two count. Judge and Bellinger to follow down the line. That is a fair ball. Gri’s headed for second. He says, “Don’t worry, Skip. We’ll take a double instead. Well, >> little bit of justice maybe and a leadoff hitter on base, which has not happened a lot. Only the third time in the series Yankees have gotten a leadoff man on in the playoffs that matters. Scoring position, Aaron Judge. >> This crowd wants a loud noise right now. Oh, they had one, didn’t he? >> They almost got it. >> Judge hitting .474 in this postseason. Looking for that first home run, though. He’s only knocked in two. 0 and two. This ball is fouled just barely. Now by adjusted OPS, which is a category that you can look at to compare hitters across generations. Historically great. Aaron Judge is tied with Lou Garriing just Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Barry Bonds. Probably going to win his third MVP in four years. Oh, >> just misses right there. Bieber. But as we know when you wear that uniform, legacies are measured in championships. And those guys who are talking about Deaggio nine rings, Ruth and Mantel 17, Garrick 16, Ger 15 way to the pinstripes heavy. The history that it carries. That’s a wild pitch. Up to third goes Gisham. 10 seasons with the Yankees for the 33y old and Aaron has said it’s hard to put into words how special it is not just to play for the Yankees but to be looking like that’s going to be the only place he ever plays for on a two- two from Shane Bieber. Judge rips one down the left field line. That’ll get the job done into the corner. Gisham Johnson. Judge chugging for second with a double. That’s back to back doubles to open the third for the Yanks. And it’s 6-2. I’m a big believer the more opportunities that Aaron Judge gets, the less the narrative will be talked about in the postseason. Yes, it’s been hyperfocused on him, but he’s swinging the bat pretty good in the regular season and they know the numbers will average out in the postseason. The problem is you just wonder how many more of those years he has left for this great franchise. >> High strike on Cody Bellinger. >> Meaning it’s not a guarantee you’re going to the postseason every year. Well, >> for Judge, eight of the 10 seasons he’s been here, they have for the Yankees, 27 World Championships, 27 consecutive winning seasons. So, they’re always in the conversation. But Judge in his prime that doesn’t last forever. That hit, by the way, came on a change up, which was the first hit for the Yankees against an off speed pitch in this series. When you factor in the splitters, they were 0 for 24 against splitters and change ups. And now Cody Bellinger, who’s been their best run producer this postseason on an 01. Swats one into left center field. That’ll sink down for a base hit. Three consecutive hits to open the third for the Yankees. A little bit more like the Yankees. And this ball’s tried to throw it up and he throws it exactly the way you wanted to. I mean, that’s just better hitting. He throws his hands at it. Judge has to make sure And all you want to do if you’re the Yankees is pass the baton on >> one at bat at a time. Crawl back in this game, but make no bones about it. They have to score on third and maybe one more and then the game is right back in in play. Pete Walker’s not gotten a lot of exercise in this series out there for rear visit. Well, we told you there Aaron Boon considered starting Paul Goldman, but this is the kind of spot that he envisioned when he said, “I’m going to keep Ben Rice in there.” Kind of spot with a young kid could change the game with his power. Took him right down the middle. 26-y old hit 26 home runs during the regular season. Homerred in game two against Boston. Judge at third. Bellinger at first. Rice bounces one to first. Guerrero’s looking home. He’s got Judge hung up and now he’s in a rund down. Kirk to third. Judge for the plate. Guerrero chases him. One star after another and he tags him out. Into third goes Bellinger. Rice is still at first. Well, Guerrero Jr. with a heads up play comes home and they get the lead runner for the first out of the inning. Well, what’s interesting there, and he did keep the run from scoring, but it could have been a double play and you give up the run. So, we’ll see how the inning shakes out. But a great job of base running by Aaron Judge to at least let Bellinger get back to third base. So, they have the same scenario now with one out. Problem is a ground ball here and double play gets him out of the inning. So, I talked about Judge had to score. Well, now Bellinger has to score. He just replaced him. And it’s Sean Carlos Stanton who knocked in the first run for the Yankees at the plate. Stanton won for his first 15 in the postseason, but he’s three for his last five. Seven home runs in the postseason last year, 18 in his career. You got to know what you’re going to do in baseball before it happens. So, if you’re fielding a ball, you’re an infielder, you’re thinking of scenarios that play out before it gets hit to you. And I think what happened there is Guerrero’s vision was so locked in on Judge that that was an easy decision for him to make. But fielding that ball at first, throw to second, throw to first, double play. He went for cutting the run down at home plate. Bever had a stand and two. Went out to get that pitch. Lifted it to center. Marshall’s going back. He’s onto the track with room, but it’ll bring home the run from third. And it’s 6-3. Stan has knocked in two of the three Yankees runs. >> That’s actually a huge out for the Toronto Blue Jays because that ball was hit. Looked like it could have got over his head. It may be a homer, but the Yankees got the two back with a chance to score some more with two outs. Now you just feel like you’re back in the game. Well, you said you had a feeling there could be some runs scored in this game. We’ve had nine of them over the first three innings. Jazz Chisum chops the first pitch foul. They have to have a bunch more if the Yankees are going to extend their season. Down five in the standings with about two weeks left. Down one to Boston in the wild card round. became the first team ever to erase that, come back and win in a wild card series. >> Jazz needs a mistake middle in. Middle up, belt high, and he has not been on track here in the postseason. He’s been swinging big and swinging for homers, just not connecting. One for nine, no extra base hits after he hit 31 in the regular year. I’ve had two and one. >> That’s out. >> Little bit outside. Ball three. We saw Mason Fuhard. He’s warming and this is one of those situations that is pressures on the manager to decide here, especially with a potential bullpen game coming tomorrow. But John Schneider was telling us, “Yeah, that’s in the back of my mind, but I’m going to go for the kill here. We’re going to do everything we can to win this game and not have to worry about a game four.” Ball taken high for ball four and the Yankees get the tying run to the plate. That was actually a really good at bat by Chaz. If you’re trying to make something happen, you’re swinging at a couple of those pitches. So taking the walk there with two outs. Was actually a really really good at bat. The more batters that can come to the plate, the more opportunities Aaron Judge gets to bat in this game and you turn the lineup back over and he is going to make a pitching change here. So if you’re the Yankees trying to extend this season, not only are you saying I have Cam Schlitler if I can get this to tomorrow, but you’re saying, “Hey, we got the Blue Jays having to throw a bullpen game one day after they’re going to have to cover pretty much a bullpen game like this.” The left-hander Mason Flu Hardy comes in for the Blue Jays and Aaron Boon’s going to counter with a pinch hitter as a Rosario goes up the pinch hit for Ryan McMahon. He’s above 300 against lefties this year. This is one of those ads that really deepened the bench and the depth for the Yankees. >> Tying run at the plate, strike one. Rosario started two of the three games against Boston. He started the scoring in game three with an RBI single and that four-run rally that won the series for the Yankees. Rice at second, Chisum at first. Two in the bank here in the third. Rosario swings and misses. 0 and2 the cutter 182 batting average against his cutter. Cutter is a fast ball literally that you cut which creates spins and illusion to the hitter ball. And what you do is turn it with a tight wrist and the slider has a loose wrist. So the break on either is is much bigger on a slider than it is a cutter. Flu Hardy kind of found his by accident. He was in college at Liberty. Said maybe I should just harness this, lean into this on the hand. Scutter doing what it does. >> Back here at Yankee Stadium with Yankees manager Aaron Boon. Aaron, you cut the deficit to 6-3 that last inning. What did you like most about what you saw from your offense? >> Yeah, I feel like we’re putting good at bats on them. Um, you know, squared some balls up and we just got to keep grinding. We’re capable as much as anyone of getting back with a behind in the score like we are, but obviously we got to be able to hold them down a little bit to get let our offense do some work. >> Both starters out of the game now. How does your bullpen set up the rest of the way? >> Yeah. uh you know, we’ll we’ll just start parading them out there and and try and get them in the best situations, be successful, and hopefully hold them down. >> All right, thanks a lot, Joe. Back to you. >> All right, Kenny, as the top of the order comes up here against Fernando Cruz, who’s been one of their top guys this season, but in Toronto, he came in. Both inherited runners that he had came in to score and one more guy they got to be able to count on, keep it close. >> What do you call those things? Pit bits or whatever. What do you call when you wear it? It tells you how many steps. I will guarantee you he has more steps than any pitcher period. >> He is getting halfway there. Getting to the mound. He uses so much energy and I love it. He’s He’s into it. Obviously bounced off the mound to make a play at third base, but he’s getting to steps. Camila Deval begins to loosen as Cruz delivers and strikes him out. The bottom falls out of that splitter. He says, “Check this out. We got a guy with a splitter, too. That is the best swing and miss pitch in baseball this year. See why 35 years old out of Puerto Rico comes home to David Schneider and get strike one. Debuted when he was 32, 15 years after he was drafted. We mentioned this the other day. who was drafted as an infielder by the Kansas City Royals and spent time in the minor league system with them. They cut him loose. Two years out of baseball, got a brief stint in the Cub system. That didn’t work so he went into indie ball. Another two years out of baseball before giving it one more shot pitching in Mexico and the Reds discovered him there. Signed him and an improbable topsyturvy ride to the major leagues. not just get there but to become a key bullpen piece for the New York Yankees. >> Trying to do something Rodon couldn’t. That is retire Schneider who’s walked and doubled today. Scored both times ahead of him in two. I tell you what, Schneder holds that bat as if he’s squeezing that bat, getting ready for his mechanism to just let it go. He’s got it standing kind of straight up and then watch how he gets it going. Pitch gets ready. He starts bringing his hands in. He’s ready to fire. >> David Schneider grew up a Red Sox fan with a mural of the Green Monster on his bedroom wall and then homerred over the Green Monster for his first career at bat. looking hitterish. Down on that splitter. Doesn’t matter how hitterous you look when a pitch moves like that. Two up and two down and a couple Ks. Up comes Vlad Guerrero Jr. Homerred in the first inning. Homerred in all three games to go back to game one. And they said that the whole dugout kind of exhaled when he did that in the first inning because no matter how deep they are, so much is tied to which version of Vladimir Guerrero Jr. they get. There’s a fan on the field that security is going to make quick work of that. Would have been a 15 yd penalty based on how they got to him. Now he’s got a buddy on the field. It’s not going to end well. Oh, he’s about to get blindsided. Good form tackling. You know, this is for Vlad what he’s doing in this postseason here. It’s everything that they had envisioned that he would do. It’s everything that the expectations were that he would do from the time before he even got into the major leagues. John Schneider, who was his manager in DA, tells the story of people chasing the bus, trying to just get his autograph. He’s a double A kid at that point. And he gets there, he’s the hope, he’s the face of the franchise right away. To watch him deliver like this has been really neat. >> Listen, he’s seeing so good. He let everybody know that was somebody on the field before anybody else. So, he’s seeing it all. He’s seeing the ball like a beach ball. It happens when you’re in that mode. you just love it as a hitter. And right now, why not? He’s in rhythm. And uh look, with uh with two outs, he’s still a danger now, but I guarantee the Yankees are happier he’s batting with two outs and nobody on. I mean, he’s got to be getting pretty close to the automatic put him on situation. >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. >> See how careful Cruz is with him here. put him on intentionally his last time. Here we go. >> See, he’s the type of hitter that the harder you throw, the better it is for him. He’s not a winded up swing from the heels type guy. He’s a We talked about it in game two, the rhythm of his toe tap and the way the bat and his hands go back. It’s all a timing mechanism. >> Chopper pass Rosario on for the third time. And see that’s just an easy swing. There’s no effort there. >> He’s a strong hitter, but not necessarily just a power hitter. Little toe tap. And then when it gets down, the hands are back and he can hit a ground ball for a hit. Normally ground balls go to die, but he just he’s locked in. >> He’s a hitter first. Hitter and then a slugger. >> And it looks like that is all the last from Fernando Cruz. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has a home run in all three games in this series, but you look at the full line, he is 8 for 10. Well, the starters for the Yankees in this series with a 1688 erra and considering that was the biggest advantage coming into this series, it’s no wonder that they’re looking at an early access sit without a late comeback in this game three. Down six to three. And like Aaron Boon told Ken Rosenthal, just pretty much going to be churning him out there. The crews come in and now it’s Camilo Dval who inspired a little bit of hope. His appearance in game one. Six up and six down. And really back to the end of the regular season. He’s been a lot better than his first month after they got him from San Francisco. You see he pitches off the first base side of the rubber. Watch how closed he is though. And he kind of whips his body and throws a lot of cutting fast balls. >> Alejandro Kirk takes a strike. He would be the polar opposite of an arm swing versus Shane Bieber. You’re going to see this tall, slender guy just let it rip. the ball out of Yamasa, Dominican Republic, where he’s one of 24 kids in the family. >> Wait a minute. >> 24. >> Say that one more time. >> He’s one of 24 kids in the family. They’re not all kids at this point. They range from elementary school to their early 40s. He’s kind of right in the middle. >> What? >> Oh, yeah. >> You’re going to drop that nugget on me now. >> Just now, even with two out. Yeah. Give me time to digest it during the break. One ball and two strikes on Guerrero’s the runner at first. Two gone in the fourth. Deval’s one-two pitch. Kurt chops it to third. Backs up Rosario from short left field across the diamond in time. Anthony Vulpi comes up to start the fourth for the Yankees. Down 63. Got two runs in the third inning to chip away a little bit. And Vulpi leads off against Mason Fuhard with a cutter high. Hope he struck out his first time and has struck out nine of his last 13 times at the plate. Flashing back to what he was looking like for a lot of the second half when there were calls for his spot. Had a strong last couple weeks. He’s been dealing with a shoulder injury for a lot of the year that kind of flew under the radar, but he got a shot in that shoulder in early September. Been much better since. 24y old in his third year. A lot of pressure coming with where he plays, where he’s from. He’s a local guy that grew up a Yankees fan and Yankees fans are very familiar with this story at this point, but for the rest of you joining us from around the country getting to know these teams this postseason, he wanted to be the next Jeter and then he blinks and he he is he’s the shorts stop for the Yankees and the top prospect coming up with a lot of expectations and a lot of pressure. He’s down on strikes again here. One gone in the fourth inning. T-Mobile is the best network in the game and it’s now the best network in America. Here’s Wells. Mason Fluard. He was back and forth between the Blue Jays and Triple A for a lot of this year. like a few guys came up had a great finish to the regular season. Made his case to be a leverage arm and they were looking for as many left-handed relievers as they could find. Even some guys that had hardly pitched in the majors like Justin Brule hadn’t been here in a month, they carried him specific to this Yankees lineup that they’ve been able to silence. >> Yeah. And they knew going in, obviously once they uh saw who they were going to play, the Yankees have a lot of left-handed bats in their lineup that it’s how they stocked and made decisions. Two starters didn’t make this the roster and Sherzer and Basset. They included some extra lefties. Look for one of those guys, if not both, maybe to make the roster moving forward if the Blue Jays were to go on and win. The >> money right now would be on Blue Jays Mariners as the Mariners have taken game three from the Tigers in convincing fashion in Detroit. I guess I shouldn’t totally speak yet. It’s 8 to3 bottom of the ninth. Not over till it’s over. Oh, now it’s 84. Pete Machesca tells me, “Panic Seattle, >> make the fan base do math.” That’s what we were talking about in Toronto. >> Get your calculators out. >> Full count on Wells at the top of the order on deck. >> One more hitter for Flu Hardy, the left-handed batting Trent Gisham. And then you’ve got Judge. and he saw Lewis Varlin who has been their highest leverage right-handed arm ready to go for him. 3-2 in the left. Barger’s out. He says that he’s GOT IT AND THEN LOSES THE BALL. WELLS INTO SECOND. Barger in the game as a pinch hitter earlier, not for his defense. They give up some defense in bringing him in and it shows right there. Yeah, I don’t think this is his fault. I I think the left fielder got to call him off. When a ball’s up that high and a third baseman’s got to go with his back to home plate, I think this is a left fielder and he just gives way to him and that’s what happened. >> Looked like he was calling it pretty strongly though. >> Well, he still got him off. >> Yeah, you got to call him off. I mean that’s that that’s too far to travel as a third baseman as compared to a left fielder coming in and seeing the angle way better. It was an error that opened the door for the first Yankees run. It was an air on Connor Falefa in the first and this normally airtight Blue Jays defense has given the Yankees some life. >> Well, the Yankees know all too well what happened to him last year in the fifth inning. And it started with a fly ball. Gisham one and one and they were on the opposite side of that in a negative way. It has had the feeling throughout this series so one-sided that the only way the Yankees could get going was if they got a little bit of help. And they have here in game three. Blue Jays this close to advancing to the championship series for the first time in almost a decade. >> Well, just think how many times in this brief three games that we’ve talked about the tying run coming to plate for the Yankees. Hasn’t been very much. Gisham can reach who will in the form of judge that almost hit him and it’s ball three. This is going to be the last head batter for Mason Fuhard. Tread Gisham. Aaron Boon’s picked the click today. And the hitters count right here. Ball takes ball four. And Judge is coming up. The game has again found Aaron Judge. John Schneider will call on Lewis Violin. Judge with another chance to make his mark. Aaron Judge to face Lewis Varand who has been the top guy in this Blue Jays bullpen so far in this postseason. >> He came in to face Stanton with the bases loaded and two outs and struck him out. Went right after him with a couple breaking balls and then a heater chopper down the line and fouled. Judge against Varand in his career is two for five with a pair of home runs. In this game he’s two for two. He’s hitting 500 in this postseason. >> Farland, a little different pitcher now with the Jays, a starter in Minnesota. His velocity has gone way up as a reliever for the Blue Jays. Touch 101 in that at bat against Stanton you were talking about. Here’s the one pitch and a swing and a miss at 100. Strike two. How many chances Sam Judge going to get? This is a fast ball with just I mean that’s a great swing just a tick late. >> One of the early turning points of this series the sixth inning with the bases loaded nobody out in game one battling against Kevin Gman who struck out his biggest spot since on a two- strike pitch. It’s a drive down the line. If it’s Ference’s moment, it is. It’s time. George has arrived. Heat. Heat. Bellinger to left center field. Schneider’s got it. Aaron Judge and the Yankees take advantage of the air. If you keep giving him chances like his regular season, the numbers are going to start turning. This was 3 in. And that 3 in off the foul pole may have turned this series and Aaron Judge into a different conversation. For 10 years, that ball has sailed wide to the left and just missed the foul pole. This time it hits it. Judge has his first home run of the postseason. It’s a game tying three-run shot. And the Yankees have come back from down 6-1. Facing elimination here in game three to tie it. And it’s only the fourth inning. >> I was going to say, are we in the eighth? Jeez. One and one on Rice. Well, and now again, lot of game left, but you talked about it. We touched on it. Tomorrow’s a bullpen game. He pushed the gas and rightfully so to try to put a nail in the coffin and now the game is tied and he’s going to have to use a lot of resources in the rest of this game. They could still win it and then use a lot of those resources tomorrow. >> Well, like I was saying, Jeter said about the 2001 season, they knew if they could just win the one game, they felt like it was over. If they got the one win, they thought the pressure went on the A’s. They got that one win. They rolled the A’s in game four and won it in game five. Yankees are saying if we can just win this game, we got Cam Schlitler going tomorrow and who knows in game five to get it back to Toronto. And as crazy as this game is turning out to be, it it really was a drop fly ball that has really spun this game into the Yankees favor. After a walk, an easy pop off. It was a drop fly ball that turned Autumn Doubt in Judge’s postseason resume. And it’s a drop fly ball that reopens that book and allows him to write a new chapter. The only thing better would have been as if this was the fifth inning, right? I mean, this ball is going to be caught 99 out of a hundred times. And again, Barger was in the game because he pinched it earlier. John Schneider was going for a a big hit in the third inning. They made a change that made a defense that was already not as good as the normal lineup would be. They’re playing for a little more offense in the outfield, made it even worse in the infield. And the two guys that are in there because of their batch, Schneider and left, Barger at third together on that play let him down and Judge took advantage. Well, of course they love Aaron Judge and you got a whole city, a whole fan base just waiting to embrace him, wanting him to have that moment as much as he wanted himself to have it. And as he heads back out there for the top of the fifth inning, they greet him as warmly as possible. It’s 66. The Yankees back into a tie game. Camilo Dval remains in. Dalton Vo leads off for the Blue Jays. You talk about winning one game, you immediately put the pressure on the Blue Jays, but it feels like that pressure has already been transferred over there. >> Oh yeah. I mean, you still want to be the Blue Jays. You want to be two of and put a chance to still win this game, but it changes and the crowd is now back in it. And that’s what you wanted if you’re the Yankees. >> Good. You know, I’ve said it all the time. When you play on the ro, play on the road, you want the crowd, if you’re the road team, to be a dull roar. If they’re frantic, that’s not good. That means you’re you’re losing. The one two Devar show three. Well, with that one big swing, he checked the last box. He’s got the home run and the big moment, but he’s already got a careerhigh with 11 hits in this postseason. And this is just uh what six games in. >> Yeah, but what he did right there was so impressive for me because he got blown away on the middle of the fast ball, but it was a good swing. I just said he was a little bit late and Well, he wasn’t late. You can’t be late and hit a ball inner half and not have it hooked and hit it down the line like he did. >> It’s out. I mean, it it was so impressive. If he gets this ball out front, then you got a chance for that ball to hook, but he stayed back and kept his hands in. Oh, man. What he’s the round fall foul pole. Ernie Clement deep to the left field corner. Bellinger on the run. It’ll bounce off the warning track. And Clement is three for three in this game. six out of his last seven. >> This is a slider that backs up. That was like a mediocre fast as it looks in the middle of the zone to the hitter. And now it’s Santandere >> knocked in a pair his last time up. >> Over to bat left-handed for the first time today. Switch hitter takes outside ball one. Blue Jays have not had a blown lead loss of more than four runs this year. We’ve seen a fiveun lead disappear here. You don’t have to ask Blue Jays fans if coming back from 2 is something they need to worry about happening against him because they were on the right side of it back in 2015 against the Texas Rangers. They were down 2 in that series came back to win it. Jose Bautista’s back flip, the lasting image of that comeback. But 90% of the teams that have gone up 200 in a best of five have finished it off. Dova to Santandere with a 1-1 pitch. Line drive right field. JUDGE WILL LAY OUT AND MAKE THE CATCH. Making plays all over the place. I don’t think he gets enough credit for his defense. Everybody knows what he does offensively, but his defense, he’s played a lot of center field. after a game tying home run in the bottom of the fourth inning. Aaron Judge a diving defensive play here in the fifth. Covers a lot of ground. The new pitcher for the Yankees is the lefty Tim Hill. He’s on for Addison Barger. Swing and a miss. Hill out of the bullpen in the first game. One and a third scoreless innings for the funky lefty. And you know Barger would love to atone. It was Barger’s heir that opened the door for Judg’s game tying homer. >> Barger who started the season in triple A came up in midappril hit 21 home runs. One of the many breakout stars for the Jays this year. Follows it off in a 2 and2. 25-year-old who was born in Seattle, high school in Florida, 197 last year as a rookie was back and forth between the big leagues and Triple A. He said, “I’d lost my identity. I was always tweaking and changing my swing. Back to doing what he always had, swinging hard.” Takes inside here and the count goes two and two. And the guy they call Bam Bam Barger trying to put the Jays back in front. down swinging. Tim Hill does the job. Halfway home in a 66 game. Jean Carlos Stanton leads off the bottom of the fifth and takes a strike from Varin who struck him out with 101 and that bases loaded situation back in game one. Stanton’s knocked in a run both times. He’s been up today. Yankees are looking for their first lead of this series. Very much alive here in game three. Braden Fischer warms. >> Dueling bullpen games here with neither starter making it through three. >> Yankees trying to extend this to game four when they’ve got Cam Schlitler lined up. >> That was a really good take by Stanton. Good sign for him. >> Scary sign if you’re the pitcher in ball three. I mean, those are two pitches normally when you’re out of trying to make something happen, you’re swinging at it. And you’ve seen him swing at those before when he’s not locked in. So seeing those pitches helps him in this at bat for two days in Toronto is Vlad and the Blue Jays stars delivering the boat judge and Stanton doing it for the Yankees here. Not this time though. >> One gone in the fifth, tied for a game break. Here’s Kevin Burkhard. trying to get to the championship series, Kevin, for the first time since 2001 when that record setting season was ruined by the New York Yankees. Jez Chisum laid off one bono strikes. It’s a It’s a fun MVP discussion, but it’s judge. I don’t know. I I I I hear you. I hear you. I I’m just telling you the position. The position that Cal Raleigh plays is not a normal position. If there was a player that had his numbers that was a left fielder or an infielder, hands down. But I’m telling you, he’s going to get way more votes because of the position, what it does to your legs, the involvement you have. So, it’s a better discussion. But I would say 99 out of 100 times Judge has that year. He’s an automatic MVP. There’s the drive TO DEEP RIGHT FIELD. NEW YORK LEADS FOR THE FIRST TIME in the series. Jazz Chisum goes deep. Heat. Heat. And a Yankees team that hit 30 more home runs than any other during the regular season. Only had three over the first five games of the postseason, but they have rode a pair of long balls into a tie and then their first lead of this division series. That was Judge’s first home run of this postseason that tied the game. It was Chisel’s first home run of the postseason that’s given the Yankees the lead. And it’s Braden Fischer out of the Blue Jays bullpen. Hard to the third reliever that they’ve used. Seven and0. Rosario with a looper down the left field line. That’ll sink in. Rosario heads for second. He’ll get there standing. It’s a double. hanging breaking ball stays on it. It’s amazing the momentum on an offense when things start clicking. We’ve seen it with Toronto and now we’re seeing it with New York. Seven runs on eight hits for the Yankees. Vulpi trying to get involved. Kpi can stay center field to right center. He’ll stay on the ball >> trying to pull. Everything with Vulpi mechanically when he gets connected, I’m telling you, he’s going to have good numbers. But his hands, watch his hands. And the movement that he has from his hands down to a hitting position is the mechanical funk that you get in as a hitter. His hands will start up high and then he drops him into a position to be in a position of strength. So you can either go and attack the ball or you can take. And that is where he’s at right now. And when he’s going good and when he’s not. Hands up high. Gets ready to bring him down. And see that timing of being in between is what hitters deal with. >> We had always talked about him kind of stepping open, pulling open, but Aaron Boon was saying, “Yeah, it’s because he’s late with those hands and then he hurries to try and catch up, make up for it.” >> Two balls and two strikes. Yeah, you can’t hit with your body. Although you hit through your legs, you hit ground up. And if your body is moving, that means your hands are late and the timing is bad. And that will result in that front shoulder >> leaking. He’s worked it full. >> That right there again always sometimes you got to look at a hitter and say those were good takes. Now if he doesn’t get ultra aggressive here with a 3-2 count, he won’t swing at a pitch away after seeing those breaking balls. But if a hitter wants to make something happen and he’s aggressive, he’ll expand the zone on a 3-2 count, which is somewhat neutral, right? Rosario takes his lead at second as Fiser brings a 3-2 to Vulpi. Stays alive. Another 3-2. This time he got him. Third strike out of the game of Vulpi. The lefty Brennan Little getting ready. He tried to save that late with his hands. Moment was obviously by him, but this crowd has been standing for a while. It’s Austin Wells, the nine hitter. It was Wells who popped it up into shallow left field in the fourth inning. What looked like it was going to be the second out of the inning. No big deal, but dropped by Addison Barger. Walked to Trent Gisham after that. And then the home run for Judge Paulo swing and it’s one and one. It’s funny, early in the season, there was so much talk about the the bats, right? And I don’t care what you have up there. I don’t care if it was legal to have three times the size of barrel. If you can’t keep that barrel in the zone, you’re not going to hit it. Nasty breaking pitch. Yeah, Wells is one of those guys that broke the internet first couple days of the season. They scored those uh 20 the back-to-back games 10 plus runs. 32 runs in two days against the Brewers. He had a couple home runs. >> How about that? How about the start of the season for the Brewers and then where they’re at now? >> Yeah. Like, oh, they may not be ready. >> Well, they’re ready. >> It takes 162 to make you honest. Same can be said for the Blue Jays. >> Ground ball right side to get by Guerrero. HERE COMES ROSARIO. SANTAND THROW. NO CHANCE FOR THE SECOND LANE. NO, THEY SAY that he’s out. Well says I don’t think so. I don’t really either, but uh maybe we’re both crazy. >> I don’t think that both challenges and so that’s going to be the call. That’s why that was such a tough second challenge that didn’t win. >> Seven unanswered for the Yankees. 8-6 in game three. An inside ball on Andre Simenez. 91 and two for the Blue Jays coming here. Couple Yankee stars connect on their first home runs of the postseason. Running out of time to do it. That not led before Chisum’s home run had one and a two out hit from Austin Wells. And you’re going to have David Betnar potentially for more than an inning. Hasn’t pitched yet in this series. Advantage Yankees at this point in what has become dueling bullpen games. Jimenez down the line. Foul. Well, this really should be his last hitter, you would think. Springer coming up, but maybe maybe he’ll go batter to batter. He’s got some action in the pen right now. He struck out first guy that he faced Scott Jimenez and then Springer then Schneider’s after that. Here comes Judge again to pick it off. Good first step and then Aaron Judge for the first out. One more to fulfill the minimum for him. Not seeing too many smiles crack through there like you just did from Aaron Boone >> whose team has been in this spot before. Has faced elimination before. Springer takes a ball and has responded really down in the standings. This game has kind of mirrored the season has mirrored the Yankees coming back at the end of the regular season. And then to win it to the to win it to the Red Sox in the wild card round. >> Tell you what though, this looked like a runaway train. It looked like the Blue Jays were never going to slow down. >> Six runs. They got a great record. They also have a great ability to come back. Um most really the most comebacks in Major League Baseball this year were 49. So they they’re relentless at the plate and they just got to find a way to keep now this Yankee last three innings scoring seven runs. Two and two on Springer. There’s an eternity left in this game. I didn’t read the headline by getting rid of the pitch clock. >> Oh, I tell you what, this chopper is short. Vulpi spinners 0 for four. Wear what the players are wearing on the field during the postseason. You can check out the largest selection of authentic jerseys, caps, hoodies, t-shirts, and more. Go to mlshop.com for your favorite postseason team gear. Davis Schneider and they will let Hill face him trying to get all they can out of Tim Hill with a two-run lead here and you saw Deon Williams is ready to go. They’ve not used either of their top guys in this series in Betnar or Williams on one pitch. He’s going to get Schneider Bellinger back on this to put it away. Top of the order coming up for the Yankees leading this game 8 to6 trying to force a game for tomorrow. Brennan Little is the fourth reliever to come in for the Blue Jays trying to be the first one to put up a zero. Flu Hardy, Varlon, Fiser all given up at least a run. Little pitched a scoreless inning in game one. And he’ll face Trent Gisham who’s doubled, walked, and scored twice. Shows bunt takes a strike. Aaron Judge to follow. Three for three with a home run and four driven in in this game. >> Kenny, what a night and what a postseason it’s turning into for Judge. >> Absolutely, Joe. And here is more evidence that the home run by Judge was one of the more amazing you will ever see. This year, regular season and postseason, there have been 528 pitches on 02 counts thrown out of the zone at 99 mph or above. 528. That was the first home run. >> He does things that uh mere mortals don’t. We’re going to get a chance to show you why I think it happened. Show you the pitches and why he’s standing even taller than he is right now. What a gift it is to be a baseball fan in this era with Aaron Judge and show Otani with somebody like Vladimir Guerrero Jr. doing what he’s doing. Gisham into center field at Varo. Stackcast 3D is powered by Google Cloud as Judge comes to the plate. Here it is hitting off that foul pole and you see the pitch location up and in. and he still found a way to hit it. 373. Oh, things have changed. I’m going to tell you why I think that success Aaron Judge had. I want you to watch the fast ball that goes over the middle of the plate and he swings. It’s a good swing, but he’s a little bit late and then he’s like, “Okay, okay, I’m on that one. Just missed it.” And by speeding up his bat a little bit, see where the pitch was? If that’s higher, he doesn’t do that. But because it was at the height of the other pitch and he was getting the barrel of the bat to the ball quicker, that I believe is why he was able to get that ball in the air, not hook it, and have that moment. >> This intentional walk you’re talking about. It’s the 17th time that John Schneider has put him on in his time as a manager. Bellinger into right center field. Santon Dare with A DIVING TRY. CAN’T GET IT. And he gets to the track where it sneaks by Verso. Judge stops at third. Bellinger to second. That by the way is the first time the Yankees have come up with a hit after the intentional walk to Judge over those three seasons. Well, this ball has such top spin going down. This ball dives, is diving hard, and as he dives, the ball just gets down quicker than he anticipates. And that’s why it went underneath his glove. He took a good angle, but this ball is just screaming down more than it’s carrying. Defense has deserted the Jays a bit tonight. Would have been a tremendous play, but certainly a topic of discussion. is so good. He’s had a hand in the Yankees coming back. One ball strikes on Ben Rice. Conor Falafa had the air in the first inning. Barger had the air in the fourth inning. Now Tandere a heck of a try, but he comes up empty. Rice ball takes ball two. Schneider’s really in a tough spot. I mean, the game is close. It’s 8 to six. You feel like if the Yankees get ahead here, it’s going to change the pitch selection, pitchers selections moving forward because of the resources you’re going to need for tomorrow. Golf to right center field. He went down to get that ball and lift it to Santan Bear to get home a run. Good piece of hitting by Ben Rice to make it 96. When a guy throws almost 50% breaking balls, if you stay on the ball, thinking down, even if it’s not a breaking ball, you’re able to stay there, head down, and lift the ball in the air. And that’s what he needed. Yeah. And another change coming. trying to thread that needle, keeping this a close game, but not throwing away tomorrow’s game. Something after the break, I want to talk about what the Yankees have seen. Well, Yariel Rodriguez makes his first appearance in this series and I want to let you finish what you were saying there going to break as he delivers to Stanton. Strike one. >> What seemed like an insignificant scenario when the blowout was happening in game two. Remember, Yankees got a chance to get seven runs back and face a lot of relievers. Well, some of those relievers they faced again today. And if they win the game, they’re going to face again tomorrow. The more you see the relievers, so it wasn’t insignificant those seven runs and the opportunity the Yankees hitters got check swing in front of the plate. That’s fair ball. Kirk down the first. That’s the inning. Yankees get another. They’ve scored eight straight and lead 96. I got a couple defensive changes for you. Ben Rice is out of the game. Paul Gchmick comes in at first base. Jose Cabiro does the same at third in for Rosario. So just two players left on the Yankees bench. Jason Dominguez and JC Escar the other catcher Devin Williams who has figured things out down the stretch and back into a high leverage role. Faces Van Beier Jr. and pulls in a shot. This is what they expected he would do and they got him for Milwaukee this off season. fast ball and what he’s known for is that incredible change up that just never gets there. First appearance of this series for Williams. He had two scoreless innings in the wildard round. He’s put up zeros in 19 of his last 21 games. One of the best relievers in the National League for years over in Milwaukee. Here’s one to Vlad upstairs. Ball two. Eight hits in three games for Vlad Guerrero Jr. Homer intentional walk single today. Two balls and two shreds. Glad Jr. starting the seventh. Flips it into shadow center field. It’ll be Vulpi or Chisum. They come together and Chisum makes the catch. We take a look at Fox Foresight powered by Google Cloud. Blue Jays have 24% chance of scoring three plus runs the rest of the game. You mentioned the most comebacks in baseball this year and a franchise record 49 comebacks. Kirk after the two home runs in game one has won for his last eight. through Williams. You don’t want to leave that change up middle end to Kirk. That’s that swing path that he loves. He got it down at least. He threw that change up and the ball went down and only one place really to get that was foul. Williams to Kirko too. >> On the flip side, the Blue Jays haven’t seen the high leverage guys for the Yankees because there hasn’t been no situations other than in the regular season down the stretch. So Aaron Brun’s hoping to have plenty of opportunities to use those guys for the foreseeable future. >> Wow. Now that’s close. >> That was really close. >> Almost impossible to get in this booth. But that was >> If we had reached out, we could have done some fan interference there. Reach out over the playing surface. Caught it right there. Yeah, it was close. Catch it, Rick. Another one-two pitch from Williams. Kirk fouls it off and stays alive. The next two strike hitter out there. Neither starter made it through three innings in this game. When you look at the bullpens, Toronto’s given up six runs and three and a third. The Yankees have given up no runs in four innings. Fly to right center field. Gisham on the run to the edge of the track. He’s got it. Sort of on the run. More saunter. Hey, we want to say hello and best wishes to Terry Harrison. All-Star graphics operator who is at home recovering. All of us thinking about you, Terry. Can’t wait to have you back. Can’t wait to see you sooner rather than later. 96 game. Yankees ahead of the Blue Jays. It was 6 to1 Toronto. Baro with two out. Had six runs over the first three innings. And it’s like here they go again. They’re going to do double digits here. >> Yeah. Was looking like >> Yeah. And again, you know, it’s a little bit misleading, but 13 runs in the last two games off the Blue Jays bullpen. >> Yeah. Had the seven runs get things going towards the end of game two. And at the time it was like, ah, no big deal. But you touched on it. You forced other relievers into the game. Maybe you got some momentum as hitters. The one two pitch. from Devin Williams. Got him. It’s a one, two, three. Top of the seven for Williams. Yariel Rodriguez. Now, the one thing John Schneider has done is he’s used a bunch of relievers, but none of them have thrown more than 20 pitches. And so, preserving all these guys ability to at least contribute a little bit tomorrow >> as Chisum opens the seven, takes a strike, >> and he has told us that Treya Savage could be in play tomorrow. Yes, he could. Uh, look, we knew going in the Blue Jays were going to be a little short-handed in their rotation. No Sherzer, no Basset. Made some decisions based on the Yankees and what they possess in the lineup of left-handed hitters. So, they chose some left-handed relievers, >> but they’re not going to fret. It’s not like they’re down 2-1 if they lose this game. They’re still up 2-1, but to your point, a little bit of pitching chaos tomorrow. Ball two on Chisum. >> Yeah, it was Judge’s home run that tied it. It was Chisum’s home run that gave him the lead. >> Two and two. Kenny, >> here’s a thought for you guys just to consider. Do you use perhaps Kevin Gosman tomorrow in some form on three days rest rather than your Savage on two days rest and then if there’s a potential f game five you have your Savage on normal rest to start that game at home. Just throwing it out there. >> Yeah, that’d be a little much. That might show a little panic. Uh you know I I I hear the premises. It it >> towards left center field. Schneider’s there. But then you’re you’re asking one of your best starters to pitch on short rest and then throw the young kid into a winner take off if he had to. But I I just think that the the Blue Jays in their plan of attack uh has worked perfectly until tonight and it’s just one game. So um they’re ready for just about anything. First at bat of this game for Paul Goldmint. Came on defensively last inning. >> Started at first base for a lot of the years. see the time down the stretch to Ben Rice and has only started one game in the postseason, but he’s four for seven when he’s had his chances, >> former MVP of the St. Louis Cardinals. Somebody make a good play. Oh, MVP catch in the upper deck. >> Oh, man. >> Oh, with a glove. No, just straight hand up. Ball in the hand. Barger. Two out. Vulpi been struck out all three times. Tide has turned in the strikeout column, too. Blue Jays have actually struck out more times than the Yankees have. Eight for the Blue Jays, six for the Yanks. That’s in ground ball left side. Barger stabs it and one of the strongest arms in baseball gets it over there to finish off the score to seven. >> Second inning of work for Devin Williams. Sir Clement leads off for the Blue Jays and take high. This game has kind of uh been representative of the season race cuz yeah, they tied, but it was big swings one way or the other. Yankees way out ahead in the first half. Blue Jays came flying past them midway through the season and the Yankees charged back late. It would have been incredible if Toronto was able to keep the Yankees lineup at bay throughout the first three games. And it sure looked like that was more probable than not. But give the Yankees credit. Clement through the left side and Ernie Clement is four for four. Blue Jays not dead yet. Lead off for Clement here in the eighth. What a roller coaster it’s been for these guys. Below 500, eight games behind the Yankees two months into the year. A 10-game winning streak mid-season that included the four-game sweep against the Yankees in Toronto to take over first place. would not lose it. Even though they did everything they could throughout September there to hand it back to the Yankees, but they’ve won their last six games, the last four of the regular season, the first two of this division series. They were the only team in the American League that hung on. Yeah. The Tigers watched their 11game lead in September disappeared. Astros had a 4-ame lead, wound up missing the postseason for the first time in a decade. Chase four-game winning streak to finish and win the tiebreaker. Her first division title in a decade. Tommy Nash ball. You wonder how long before you would see how much it would take here for the Blue Jays to see one of the top arms get up in the pen if John Schneider would shift that strategy. Does that take a full-on comeback or does that take just a little bit of a threat here? >> Well, when you basically only have three starters on your roster for this, you got 10 relievers. So, they can keep coming out there one after another. Here’s a two-1 sometime there takes strike two. >> A change up that Williams throws is more like a screw ball. And what that means is that pronation of the pitch and the speed and the unbelievable tilt and downward action away from the left-hander is what he’s been so known for. >> Oh, no. No. >> Checked his swing. Count is full. Well, no matter what happens here, he’s got to make the Blue Jay hitter put it in play. A walk would just be a huge rally momentum for Toronto. Got him with the fast ball. That works, too. Really stayed on top of this fast ball. Oh, he said that Aaron Boon could go to David Bettar for more than an inning. He’s going to look for five outs from his closer. Yankees up 96 with a runner aboard here in the eighth. Blue Jays had six runs over the first three innings of this game. They have not scored since. Yankees have gone off lead 9 to6. David Bednar pitched in all three games in the wild card round making his first appearance of the division series here. >> Tremendous strikeout to walk ratio and multiple inning save here. Taking over the closer duties after coming over at the deadline from Pittsburgh. Seven out of his last seven and looking for a five out save here. Barger down the line foul was an all-star with the Pirates back-to-back seasons 2022 and 2023. Then last year had a 570 RA just completely went away. Early on this season it was so bad that they sent him to Triple A. Came back up and has been back to that early career form. >> His pitch bouncing ball gently to second. The only play for Chisum is a first. Well, for the Blue Jays, they would love nothing more than to get a two-out hit here. And at least, if not any more scoring, the ninth inning brings in a little bit of tension with Guerrero looming. Clement who started this inning with his fourth hit of the day is at second and the hitter is Andre Simenez ball open after Carlos Rodon gave up six runs and two and a third five and a third scoreless cruise to Dval to Hill to Williams and now Bednar is 10 in for a strike. Easy play for Paul Goldman. And they pitch around the lead off hit. Austin Wells takes a strike from Tommy Nance who takes over for the bottom of the eighth inning. And Nance, who’s with his fourth different organization, first half was in TripleA, came up at the All-Star break and he’s had the best RRA on the team since coming up. 34y old fires and Wells pops it fouled. Trying to keep it right here. The Jays have the top of the order coming up in the ninth inning. or if they can hang on. Cam Schlitler ready to go for the New York Yankees after eight shutout innings, 12 strikeouts, no walks in the clinching game of the wildard round. >> Yeah. What a game. >> Similar to Y Savage, not much of a background. Sither started the season in double A. They’ve made 13 starts at the major league level before doing what he did to save their season. And as the Yankees fanator sit be there thinking, my gosh, we get swept. We’re going to leave him on deck. base hit into right center for Wells. Second hit of the day for the Yankee catcher. It was the first start in postseason history. Eight scoreless innings, 12 strikeouts, no walks. >> Yeah. And and it it was one of those games where it never looked like there was anything in doubt, right? He just was in command, composed and brought hungry back to the top and Gisha ball. But how about we may have Schlitler and the Savage throwing at the same time tomorrow. >> Nathan Lucas, by the way, is in the game in left field replacing David Schneider. So Lucas will be due up second next inning. All >> two and on Gisham who has helped change things for the Yankees today. He came in one for eight in this series but he’s doubled and blocked and scored twice. Top two in the order have scored six runs between him and Judge. >> That’s out. been in these situations before and what you say afterwards if the Yankees are able to win this game, you just collectively go bring your suitcases because our goal is to make Toronto go back home and play another game and a lot of that work still have to be done. But that would be Friday night. Yeah. And it would be Kevin Gosman against Max Freed. You would assume 3-1. >> The Blue Jays scored 22 of the first 23 runs in this series. Since then, the Yankees have outscored the Jays 16-7, starting with what felt like kind of a meaningless seven run burst there. fly the other way. Lucas going back. Backpedals to the edge of the track and grabs it. And it’ll bring up Aaron Judge. and they will stand to show their appreciation. You think he’s good in the regular season? How about Aaron Judge in the postseason? 524 and then OPS off the charts. Chopper along third. Barger with a running throw to get him. First time he’s retired today. But if you happen to just tune in and say, “Wait a minute. Aaron Judge hits in the postseason.” Look at that. It’s been a lot of singles shipped in a double and then this to tie the game in the fourth. Incredible. That ball stayed right down the line. It had to feel like time froze for him as he watched that thing go down the line. The whole postseason narrative hanging in the balance as it slow motion towards the foul pole and it did stay fair and it did change everything for him and the Yankees. They put Bellinger on intentionally here. Yeah, that became the fair pole. Foul ball means you missed it and it went left of it. >> First and second for Cababierro. >> That’s out. >> Trying to get some insurance going into that ninth inning. The top of the order coming up. Springer, Lucas, Guerrero, David Betar looking for a five out save. Caviro known for his speed and he’s brought that to the Yankees, but he’s also brought a much better bat than he ever showed in Tampa Bay. Versatility. He’s played five different positions and an edge that Aaron Boon talks about loving. >> Well, for a team that really was struggling in the series with runners scoring position until really when they got way down. They’ve 10 for their last 17. going back to that latter part of game two. >> And this is the more varied attack that the Yankees showed really over the last month of the regular season as a team that hit 290 with runners in scoring position the last month. It was not just the home runs and they’ve had the two home runs today, but they have 11 hits total. Caviro hurt something on that swing. Again, they’re down to just JC Assara, the second catcher, and Jason Dominguez. If Cabier were to have to leave this game, they’d have to play some gymnastics in the field. >> Well, even if he couldn’t swing because of his left hand, I’m sure he could still Yeah. play the field, but looked like it was this left hand that tweaked or wristed. You’ll know it’s bothering him if he lays down a bunt here on a T. >> Although he could reach his speed, PUNCHES ONE RIGHT SIDE AND THROUGH. They stop Wells. Santandere is playing very shallow, so he’s on that ball quickly. And they’re loaded up for Stanton. Just slaps it the other way. Big hole there. Seems like more guys could do that, but he had the perfect approach. Stanton pops it up. Who wants it from that? A Yankees bullpen that gave up 14 runs over the first two games of this series has fired five and a third scoreless innings tonight. And David Betar tries to finish it off. Top of the order for the Blue Jays. A strike on George Springer. ball. No, no. >> One ball, one strike. And the Jays got to be thinking about getting these first two guys on here. Give a shot to Vlad Guerrero as the tying run. Springer, Lucas, and then Guerrero. Top comeback team in baseball this year. They’re in position to have to come back because they’re looking at potentially their biggest blown lead loss of the season. They led this game six to one. And this would be the largest comeback in Yankees history in an elimination game. One away in the ninth as Bedar strikes him out in the splitter. Everybody’s got one. And he learned his from the master Hideo Nommo. It’s an adviser down in San Diego when Bettnar was a minor leager with the Padres’s and he said, “Hold it like this.” Lucas came on defensively last inning. >> Two out of six at the plate in this postseason. Shakes it foul. As the Blue Jays start to think about a bullpen game tomorrow, they use six relievers today, but none of them threw over 20 pitches. Look out. So, you’ve got probably everybody available again tomorrow. And then Eric Lowour who is a converted starter to give him some length. Top guys Jeff Hoffman, Sir Anthony Dominguez didn’t use today. Those guys will be fully rested. Can give him an inning plus. Where does Treya Savage come in for John Schneider Feder’s 1-1 in for strike two. No question about who’s taken the bulk of the game for the Yankees. It’s a great feeling to have when you’re you’re really hoping your team can come through so you can get another chance right when you’re down facing elimination. that next day starter is at the mercy of his team. And then two gone in the ninth and out away from giving Schlller his chance. The blues are for Vlad who did it again tonight. He’s homered in all three games in this division series. >> Yeah, he might be slumping. >> Made it out his last time. What’s wrong with the guy? >> Eight hits in three games for Vlad Jr. an hour earlier tomorrow for game four. 7:00 Eastern. Here’s a 200 ball. Little bit high. David Bednar’s 3-1 pitch to Vlad Guerrero Jr. is swung on and missed. Three and two, six over the first three for the Jays. Nine for the middle innings for the Yankees to save their season. fouled off of his foot. Back foot diving STOPPED BY CABIERRO. GAME FOUR NIGHT. The Yankees have life and it was their star. It was the MVP that breathed it into him. A three hit night for Aaron Judge, including a three-run home run that tied the game at six. And Aaron Boon’s club comes from down 6-1 to win it 96. >> We talked about in the open about flipping the script. really what Toronto had done well all series that New York tried to had to flex their muscles and I didn’t know it was going to take a 6-1 deficit for that to happen but it did and the offense and the team gets a chance one more night to force a game five new just win one game and it all changes Yankees not just alive but with Cam Schwitler trying to build off one of the most dominant postseason performances we’ve ever seen in a bullpen game countering for Toronto. How about this last out for Cababierro pull it on the ground and a great play and a happy crowd on a day where the Yankees had the clear edge defensively. Now, oh my, things can shift fast. change the narrative. Speaking of, take an exhale. Their season’s still going. Down to Ken Rosenthal. Thanks, Joe. Aaron, your game tying three-run homer came on an 02 pitch. the pitch before you swung through a 100 mph fast ball. At that point, what were you thinking? >> Got to get the job done. You know, it’s just uh you know, foul off a slider, swing through a heater. Um try not to think too much. You know, spend all my homework. I know what they’re going to try to do. You know, go out there, have some fun, put a good swing on something, and you know, kind of see what happens. >> Now, the pitch you hit was in. It was off the plate. Watching it fly, did you think it would stay fair? You never know. I never had one like that right at the foul pole. Um, you know, thankfully the ghost kind of took that one over and kept it fair for us. That was a nice one. >> You said the other day that you were just trying to pass the baton tonight. You guys are facing elimination. Did you feel like you had to do more? >> We’ve been facing elimination all season long. You know, even especially at the end of September where, you know, we’re fighting for a division. We got to win every game. It felt like an elimination game every single night. And then especially going into the wild card, lose the first one where you now you got your backs against the wall. It’s just uh there’s no panic in this team, you know, especially in the first inning. You know, two-run homer by Vlad doing his thing again. Uh the boys stay locked in. >> Tomorrow, game four, Cam Schlitler for you guys. They’re throwing a bullpen game. You’re still down two games to one, but how do you like your chances? >> We just got to keep playing our game. Just um you know, it’s going to be a battle. They’re going to be coming out fighting and clawing just like we are. Just stay focused on one thing. It’s just, you know, got to win every pitch. That’s it. >> Aaron, thanks a lot. Appreciate it. Thank you, >> Joe. Back to you. >> All right, Kenny. 9 to6 the final score. There will be a game four in the Bronx tomorrow night.
FULL GAME: October 7, 2025 – New York Yankees vs. Toronto Blue Jays (ALDS Game 3)
Aaron Judge, Jazz Chisholm Jr. and the New York Yankees score EIGHT unanswered runs to force a Game 4 vs. the Toronto Blue Jays.
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I’m pretty we forced a Game 4.
1:23:03 is why everyone is here
Crazy that a single home run and game win convinced Yankees copers that Judge could carry the team to a world series win lol
I remember it being all over youtube and twitter the morning after this game, and for another week they were pretending that Judge was better than Ohtani. Until NLCS game 4 lmao
People be saying Judge never shows up to October and my man hit for .500
There’s definitely no hope for this New York Yankees team.
Sad day
The Yankees can't win even if Judge bats .500; this proves that the Yankees are Judge and nothing else, a soulless team thanks to Aaron Boone and Cashman.
I can tell the only teams MLB cares about are the Dodgers and Jankees. If any other team did this it wouldn't make the cut. The Jankees lost this seires and this their only good moment of the seires. The Jankees drought is old enough to drive hopefully soon we'll be celebrating it being old enough to vote.
Astrosforever❤
the one game Judge arrived in this October
I’m a Jays fan and this was one of my favourite games of the postseason. Superheroics from both teams
Dodgers is an ever ever good team I got it for i getting back playing The baseball game but what if I don't want to lose this again for is i gotta again played again
I win
This was a showcase of one of the biggest issues that plagued the Jays and it ultimately was a factor that cost them the WS: The Bullpen. This is also why, despite the Yank's awful fielding fundamentals that you should be very careful with their hitters when they get their acts together.