{"id":367657,"date":"2026-10-08T07:34:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T07:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367657\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T07:34:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T07:34:27","slug":"aaron-judge-doesnt-mince-words-about-watching-yankees-alds-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367657\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Judge doesn’t mince words about watching Yankees’ ALDS loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aaron Judge has been here too many times before: watching another team celebrate in front of him at Yankee Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cJust hating every single moment of it,\u2019\u2019 Judge said of his thoughts when he was sitting in the dugout after the Rays beat the Yankees 4-3<\/a> to complete a three-game sweep of the ALDS. \u201cSo I don\u2019t forget it. I was thinking of missed opportunities this season and this series.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

That may be what the 2026 Yankee season will most be remembered for<\/a>, as Judge was forced to miss such a sizable chunk of the regular season due to a fractured rib that cost him over three months and then the strained calf that prevented him from playing in the postseason.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Asked how close he was to being activated for the ALDS<\/a> after missing the wild-card series win over Boston, Judge said, \u201cWe\u2019re talking hypotheticals. If I was on the roster or not, guys were out there fighting and I had all the faith in them. I like our chances whether I\u2019m out there or not.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"NewAaron Judge and George Lombard Jr. look on from dugout after the Yankees\u2019 4-3 season-ending loss to the Rays in Game 3 of their ALDS series on Oct. 7, 2026 in The Bronx. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n

He said he was \u201cfeeling great,\u201d but the lineup certainly missed Judge\u2019s presence \u2014 just as it did during the regular season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt definitely hurts,\u2019\u2019 Judge said. \u201cYou want to be out there. You try to get out there as soon as you can. It hurts not to get a chance to get out and battle.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, the Yankees have to watch the rest of the postseason play out without them and then head into an offseason filled with uncertainty, with a lockout likely in December.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Judge was asked what the team needs to do to get better and avoid being in this situation again, as they have every year of his career.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"NewAaron Judge is seen during lineup announcements before the start of Game 3. Robert Sabo for New York Post<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re the Yankees,\u2019\u2019 Judge said. \u201cI feel like [the front office] should go all in and do what they need to do. If we\u2019ve got holes, if it\u2019s finding certain players, whatever we need.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

He praised the contributions of young players like Cam Schlittler, George Lombard Jr. and Spencer Jones and said he was impressed with how Anthony Volpe bounced back after being sent down to the minors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

None of it was enough to get the Yankees back to the top of the baseball world.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\tThank you\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Judge said \u201ca lot of things\u201d need to happen for that to change.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI control what I can as a player,\u2019\u2019 Judge said. \u201cThey give us a winning team every year. That\u2019s not good enough in New York.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

And it resulted in a division rival clinching an ALDS win over the Yankees in The Bronx, with the Blue Jays doing it a year ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t like that, other teams celebrating at our place,\u2019\u2019 Judge said. \u201cIf you don\u2019t like it, you\u2019ve got to play better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron Judge has been here too many times before: watching another team celebrate in front of him at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10094,20,5515,9,11,10,321,319,25678],"class_list":["post-367657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-aaron-judge","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports","tag-tampa-bay-rays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}