{"id":26624,"date":"2025-10-08T03:44:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T03:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=26624"},"modified":"2025-10-08T03:44:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T03:44:46","slug":"blue-jays-yankees-aaron-judge-hammers-three-run-homer-to-tie-alds-game-3-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=26624","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays-Yankees: Aaron Judge hammers three-run homer to tie ALDS Game 3 score"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Facing elimination in Game 3 of the American League Division Series, Aaron Judge delivered for the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the bottom of the fourth inning, he turned a 99 mph four-seamer from Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Louis Varland into a 373-foot shot that ricocheted off the foul pole, scoring Austin Wells and Trent Grisham.<\/p>\n<p>It was Judge&#8217;s first home run this year on a pitch outside the strike zone.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AARON JUDGE OFF THE FOUL POLE!<\/p>\n<p>TIE GAME!!! <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ALDS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ALDS<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rplPnEsRoH\">pic.twitter.com\/rplPnEsRoH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB (@MLB) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/1975743095359643661?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The timing was massive, as it tied the score at 6-6 after New York previously trailed 6-1 earlier in the contest. Only four teams in MLB postseason history have erased a five-run deficit when facing elimination, most recently the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 5 of the 2012 National League Division Series against the Washington Nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Judge&#8217;s score-tying homer was his 11th hit of this postseason, the most by a Yankee through the club&#8217;s first six postseason games since Hideki Matsui and Alex Rodriguez each had 11 in 2004. Teams trailing by at least five runs when facing elimination were 4-129 (.030) entering today.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN Research contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facing elimination in Game 3 of the American League Division Series, Aaron Judge delivered for the New York Yankees. Editor&#8217;s Picks In the bottom of the fourth inning, he turned a 99 mph four-seamer from Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Louis Varland into a 373-foot shot that ricocheted off the foul pole, scoring Austin Wells and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[5377,15477,133,413,15960,11328,15959,675,9496,15961,12735],"class_list":{"0":"post-26624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-aaron","9":"tag-alds","10":"tag-blue","11":"tag-game","12":"tag-hammers","13":"tag-homer","14":"tag-jaysyankees","15":"tag-judge","16":"tag-score","17":"tag-threerun","18":"tag-tie"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}