TORONTO — Aaron Judge walked to the plate within the high of the tenth with two outs and two on trying to put an finish to all this Monday night time.
With one good swing, the Yankees slugger might give the Bombers their first American League East title since 2019. With a extremely, actually good swing, he might contact historical past. He waited patiently because the Blue Jays swapped out relievers. He studied from the on-deck circle as Tim Mayza warmed up.
Judge walked again to the plate as the gang started to go loopy. And Blue Jays supervisor John Schneider held up 4 fingers. The Yankees and Judge must wait one other day. Clarke Schmidt gave up a walk-off, line drive single to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. because the Blue Jays rallied to beat the Yankees 3-2 in 10 innings in entrance of 34,307 at Rogers Centre.
“A game on the line? That’s where you wanna hit. That’s why I did all the work to put myself in a position to go out there and help the team out and I was gonna win right there,” Judge mentioned. “But I belief each single man in our lineup and each single man on our bench and particularly the blokes behind me, Anthony Rizzo day in and day trip all through this entire season has all the time give you large spots, however in the present day we didn’t do it.
“We just got to show up tomorrow and get it done.”
The loss snapped a seven-game successful streak for the Yankees (94-59) and delayed what the crew hopes is inevitable. The Bombers got here into the sport with a magic variety of two, which means they want one win on this three-game sequence to clinch the American League East and the No. 2 seed within the American League playoffs. The Blue Jays (87-67) dropped their magic quantity to clinch a playoff spot to a few.
For the sixth straight recreation, Judge didn’t hit a house run. He stays at 60 for the common season and one shy of the American League single-season and Yankee franchise file set by Roger Maris in 1961.
Judge is 5-for-18 with eight walks since his final residence run, No. 60, which got here virtually every week in the past. His longest residence run drought this season is 9 video games.
Right now, he’s not getting quite a bit to hit.
“I know no pitcher wants to be the one who gives up No.61,” starter Luis Severino mentioned. “So they are pitching him carefully.”
In the primary inning, Judge noticed 4 pitches, lining a single into proper discipline. He ended up scoring the Yankees’ first run on Gleyber Torres’ sacrifice fly. In his second at-bat, Judge labored a six-pitch stroll. In the sixth inning, Kevin Gausman caught Judge taking a look at an 85-mph slider. In the eighth, Yimi Garcia fell behind Judge 3-1, however obtained him to strike out swinging on a 91-mph slider that was low and away.
In the highest of the tenth, after the Blue Jays deliberately walked Judge to load the bases, Mayza obtained Rizzo to floor out to eradicate the menace.
In his second begin again since coming off the injured checklist, Severino was in a position to get his pitch rely as much as 76 pitches. He most likely might have gone deeper within the recreation, however some shaky protection behind him shortened his outing.
Isiah Kiner-Falefa hit his fourth residence run of the season within the second inning. The 404-foot shot to left-center discipline was the tenth residence run the Yankees have hit since Judge hit his final on Sept. 20. It additionally gave the Yankees a 2-0 lead. In the underside of the fourth, the Yankees shortstop helped give it proper again. With Bo Bichette on first, he let a Guerrero Jr. hard-hit floor ball eat him up. Severino walked Alejandro Kirk after which Teoscar Hernandez hit one off the middle discipline wall. While he admired that, Judge fired the rebound to Kiner-Falefa. Hernandez obtained a late begin out of the field after a sluggish stroll and bat flip, giving the Yankees had an opportunity to get him at second base. But Kiner-Falefa fired residence and couldn’t beat the second runner.
Severino was charged with these two runs. He completed the outing with three walks and hits apiece in 4 innings of labor.
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