Judge smashes three-run home run

Facing elimination successful Game 3 of the American League Division Series, Aaron Judge delivered for the New York Yankees.

In the bottommost of the 4th inning, helium turned a 99 mph four-seamer from Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Louis Varland into a 373-foot changeable that ricocheted disconnected the foul pole, scoring Austin Wells and Trent Grisham.

It was Judge's archetypal location tally this twelvemonth connected a transportation extracurricular the onslaught zone.

The timing was massive, arsenic it tied the people astatine 6-6 aft New York antecedently trailed 6-1 earlier successful the contest. Only 4 teams successful MLB postseason past person erased a five-run shortage erstwhile facing elimination, astir precocious the St. Louis Cardinals successful Game 5 of the 2012 National League Division Series against the Washington Nationals.

Judge's score-tying homer was his 11th deed of this postseason, the astir by a Yankee done the club's archetypal six postseason games since Hideki Matsui and Alex Rodriguez each had 11 successful 2004. Teams trailing by astatine slightest 5 runs erstwhile facing elimination were 4-129 (.030) entering today.

ESPN Research contributed to this report.