{"id":196922,"date":"2025-10-08T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T07:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/196922\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T07:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T07:00:09","slug":"why-judges-homer-in-game-3-was-so-unique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/196922\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Judge’s homer in Game 3 was so unique"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aaron Judge<\/a>‘s first home run of this post-season was one of a kind.<\/p>\n

After fouling off a knuckle curve on the outside black and swinging through a 100 m.p.h. fastball down the middle, Judge delivered a game-changing swing.<\/p>\n

The two-time MVP pulled his hands in on a 99.7 m.p.h. fastball that was in on the plate and lofted a high flyball off the left-field foul pole, evening the score at 6-6.<\/p>\n

It was the first time in the Statcast Era, regular or post-season, that a hitter had homered on a 99 m.p.h. or harder pitch that was 1.2 feet inside from the centre of the strike zone.<\/p>\n

“Give him credit, man. That was a ridiculous swing,” Blue Jays manager John Schneider said after his team’s 9-6 loss.<\/p>\n

Judge had a little help from his teammate, Giancarlo Stanton, in being prepared for his at-bat against Varland.<\/p>\n

The Blue Jays right-hander entered in a big spot during the sixth inning of Game 1, and set down Stanton on a 100.7 m.p.h. fastball to strand bases loaded, preserving a 2-1 Toronto lead.<\/p>\n

\u201cTalked to (Stanton) about what some pitches were like. I hadn\u2019t seen Varland since he was with Minnesota as a starter,\u201d Judge said post-game.<\/a><\/p>\n

Before Judge flipped the mood at Yankee Stadium, Austin Wells reached on an error by Addison Barger, and Trent Grisham worked a walk against Mason Fluharty.<\/p>\n

With the Yankees down 2-0 in the ALDS, the blast also put Judge into some historic company. It was his sixth playoff home run in an elimination game \u2014 tied with David Ortiz for the most in MLB history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron Judge‘s first home run of this post-season was one of a kind. After fouling off a knuckle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-196922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}