Aaron Judge had his Carlton Fisk moment during ALDS Game 3.
The New York Yankees slugger Judge provided one of the moments of the postseason thus far with a clutch game-tying home run on Tuesday against the Toronto Blue Jays. During the fourth inning at Yankee Stadium in New York, N.Y., Judge was up to bat with two runners on and the Blue Jays leading 6-3.
Toronto brought in reliever Louis Varland to face Judge, but it didn’t matter as Judge ripped a rocket down the left field line on an 0-2 pitch. After a dramatic pause, the ball smacked off the foul pole in left for a three-run homer to tie the game at 6-6.
Aaron James Judge#AllRise pic.twitter.com/AoIxdi3z8i
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) October 8, 2025
The Yankees went on to win the game 9-6 to successfully extend their season (with Toronto now taking a 2-1 series lead into Game 4 on Wednesday). After the contest, Judge spoke out about the home run and gave credit to a very unlikely source — a ghost.
“I never had one like that right at the foul pole,” Judge told Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports. “Thankfully the ghost kinda took that one over and kept it fair for us. That was a nice one.”
“I never had one like that right at the foul pole. Thankfully the ghost kinda took that one over and kept it fair for us, that was a nice one”
— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) October 8, 2025
Aaron Judge talked with @Ken_Rosenthal about his big game-tying home run, and the Yankees not panicking no matter what the situation is pic.twitter.com/mp82FGBzFJ
There are obviously a whole lot of greats who played at Yankee Stadium before Judge. So thus, he has more than his fair share of options for whom to credit there.
The reigning AL MVP Judge is often clowned for supposedly being a poor playoff performer, and an ugly error in Game 2 of the ALDS certainly didn’t help his cause any. But Judge is doing more than enough mashing at the plate right now, going 3/4 with 4 RBIs on Tuesday to bring himself to seven hits over the first three games of the series against the Blue Jays.
