Not Only Did Aaron Judge Finally Find His Big Swing With The Season On The Line, But He May Have Hit The Most Difficult Homer In The Statcast Era

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I'm not sure if you saw this one yet, but last night Mr. Low Leverage, Mr. Empty Stats, Mr. May reset the narrative and arrived at the moment with the biggest swing of his life. Facing elimination Aaron Judge put a jolt back into what was a dead Yankees postseason. It was fucking awesome and so was the call by Joe Davis. 

The result? We're still playing baseball tonight with Cam Schlittler on the mound trying to send this sucker back to Toronto. It's been a wonderful morning seeing all sorts of Yankee hater accounts either silenced or left to only make fun of Judge staring at a camera. 

Carrabis only posted two Blue Jays hits on his IG last night and left it at that. According to him the game ended there. Yeah, not quite. 

What's even more special about the homer is the pitch he hit it on. Varland is not an easy at bat in the slightest with a high velo fastball and a knuckle curve that will mostly keep you on the ground. Get behind 0-2 to a guy like that and it's typically bad news for you. Well, ahead 0-2 on Judge, Varland tried to get him to chase a fastball running in on the hands. Only problem for Louis is that Aaron Judge is an alien. It's the first homer ever recorded during the Statcast era that was hit on a pitch off of that velocity, in that location. I still don't understand how he kept that ball fair. 

Jeter might be right, there's one person on the planet who is hitting that pitch for a homer and it's the big monster of a man who did it Tuesday night to extend the Yankees postseason life. 

It's so much fun watching Aaron Judge do his thing when he's locked in. Truly might be the greatest right handed hitter the game has ever seen. That's sounds like hyperbole, but it's not. Finally that success has found its way into October. Now that's not to say he wasn't hitting this postseason, but only one extra base hit in eighteen at bats isn't the Judge we're accustomed to seeing. It's this guy. The one who can flip a game on its end with power swings that don't even make sense. 

Unfortunately for Judge, he's gotta keep it going or the fat lady will be heard singing. Unfortunately for John Schneider, a new version of this behemoth may have been unlocked. 

Tonight will not be easy. Varland starts for the Jays in what will be a bullpen game. You may see Kevin Gausman. You may see Eric Lauer. It does help that the Jays went to their pen so early in Game 3 and will now be asking them to do it all again. Toronto does not want this going back home for a do or die Game 5. The Yankees are 3-0 when facing elimination this postseason, we're going to need that to be 4-0 by the end of the night. Please jump out early and stop pitching to Vladdy.