FULL INNING_ Aaron Judge hits a MASSIVE home run for the Yankees to tie ALDS Game 3 vs. Blue Jays! 💪

Anthony Volpe comes up to start the fourth for the Yankees down 6 3 2 runs in the third inning to chip away a little bit. Volpe leads off against Mason from home cutter high Volpe 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. A strong last couple of weeks has 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 24 year old in his third year. A lot of pressure coming with where he is where he's from is a local guy that grew up a Yankees fan and Yankees fans are very familiar with his 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 the short 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 flew hard 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 Brewer 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 saw who they were going to play Yankees have a lot of left handed bats in their lineup that's how they stocked and made decisions to starters didn't make this the roster and Scherzer Bassitt put in 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 3 from the Tigers in convincing fashion in Detroit I guess I shouldn't totally speak yet it's 8 to 3 bottom of the ninth that over till it's over now it's 8 for Pete Michelska tells me panic Seattle make the fan base do math as we were talking about Toronto it's calculators out count on Wells at the top of the order on deck one more hitter for Flew Hardy the left hand of batting Trent Grisham and then you've got judge and he saw Lewis Varland who has been their highest leverage right handed arm ready to go for him 3 2 and the left bargers out he says that he's got it and then loses the ball Wells in the second barger in the game as a pinch hitter earlier not for his defense they give up some defense and bring it a minute it shows right there. Yeah I don't think this is his fault. I think the left fielder got to call him off when the ball's up that high and a third baseman's got to go with his back to home plate. I think this is the 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's still got to call 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. There was an error that opened the door for the first Yankees run. It was an error on counter for left foot in the first and this normally air tight Blue Jays defense has given the Yankees some light. Well the Yankees know all too well what happened to him last year in the fifth inning and it started with a fly ball. Grisham and they were on the opposite side of that 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. They have game three Blue Jays and the Yankees have never been 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 time run coming to play for the Yankees hasn't been very much. Grisham can reach you will in the form of judge almost hit him in its ball three. This is going to be the last header batter for Mason Fuhrerty and Grisham Aaron Boone stick to click today and the hitters count right here. Ball takes ball four and judges coming up and has again found Aaron Josh Josh Schneider will call on Lewis Varland judge with another chance to make his mark. Aaron judge to face Lewis Varland who has been the top guy in his 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 right after he hit the ground with a couple of breaking balls and then a heater chopper down the line and foul judge against Varland in his career is two for five with a pair of home runs in this game he's two for two he's sitting five hundred in this postseason Varland 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 sometimes one on one and that at that against Stanton we're talking about here's the 0 1 pitch and a swing and a miss at one hundred strike to how many chances judge going to get as a fastball with just I mean that's a great swing 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 Gossman he struck out his biggest spot since got a two strike pitch hits a drive down the line if it's Ferencz's moment. Belanger the 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 three inches and that three inches off the five. The Yankees 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 ball 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 six one 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 place. Ball one and one on rice. Well and now again a 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. It could still win it and then use a lot of those resources tomorrow. 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 when 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 Schlitter going tomorrow and who knows in game five we get it back to Toronto and as crazy as this game is turning out to be it really was a drop fly ball that has really spun this game into the Yankees favor after a walk an easy pop up. It was a drop fly ball that turned out and out here in judges postseason resume and it's a drop fly ball that reopens that book and allows him the right of your chapter. The only thing better would have been as if this was the fifth inning. Right. I mean this ball is going to be He's caught ninety nine out of one hundred times and again Barger was in the game because he pinch hit earlier. John Schneider was going for a big hit in the third inning and 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 bat Schneider and left Barger Schneider and left Barger and third together on that play let him down and judge took advantage. He finally has his big October moment. Will it extend that of the Yankees. They were down 6 1 they've tied it up. And now who knows where this is headed.