Aaron Judge had his moment.
The New York Yankees trailed by three in an elimination game, but two runners were on base as Judge stepped in.
The 6-foot-7 slugger got a fastball in off the plate at 99.7 miles per hour. But somehow, Judge pulled his hands in enough to yank a towering fly ball down the left field line.
It clanged off the foul pole, gone, a three-run blast to tie the game 6-6.
In the process, Judge tied an MLB record.
Before Tuesday night, David Ortiz stood alone in MLB history with six home runs in elimination games, according to MLB Stats.
But now, Judge has six elimination game homers of his own.
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His legend has grown and grown, and Judge continues to make a real statistical case as the greatest right-handed hitter of all time.
Judge changed the game for the Yanks. After he went deep, Jazz Chisholm followed suit in pretty short order with a home run of his own.
The Yankees entered the night down 2-0 in the best-of-five ALDS to Toronto. There's still a lot of work to do to actually win the series.
But Judge started Tuesday night 3-for-3 with a double and that epic homer off the foul pole.
If Judge plays like that, the Yankees will at the very least have a chance of making some comeback history. It's something the man he tied, Big Papi, is very familiar with.
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