Aaron Judge’s iconic ALDS home run was basically impossible

Aaron Judge yet again did something no one else currently in baseball has accomplished to provide what is perhaps his most iconic Yankee postseason moment yet Tuesday night.

Judge’s game-tying three-run homer that helped galvanize the Fox Sports’ Ken Rosenthal reported during the sixth inning.

The 99.7-mph offering Louis Varland that Judge smacked off the left-field foul pole marked the fastest pitch outside the zone any player has homered against since data became available in 2008, the highest velocity pitch Judge has ever taken deep and the most-inside pitch (1.2 feet) he has ever swatted out of the park, according to Statcast data provided by CBS.

“He does things mere mortals don’t,” Fox announcer Joe Davis said during the sixth inning.

Judge is truly a special player and it’s not hyperbole to say that he may be the only player in the majors who could have possibly homered against that pitch last night.

With two on and one out in the fourth and the Blue Jays leading, 6-3, Varland got ahead, 0-2, after Judge fouled off a knuckle curve and then swung through a middle-middle 100-mph heater.

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Varland went back to ol’ No. 1 and attempted to jam Judge high and inside.

Judge somehow managed to use his strength to turn on the ball and power it enough to deep left to clank it off the foul pole for a game-tying three-run homer.

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“I felt like I made good contact, and I thought we had a chance,” said Judge, who went 3-for-4 with four RBIs and a walk. “You just never know with the wind, if it’s going to push it foul, going keep curving or not. But I guess a couple ghosts out there helped kind of keep that fair.”

Blue Jays manager John Schneider tipped his cap.

“Give him credit, man, that was a ridiculous swing,” he said.

That homer breathed new life into the stadium and the Yankees tacked on two runs in the fifth and one in the sixth to force a Game 4 on Wednesday night in The Bronx.

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Yankees fans have been clamoring for years for Judge to have his postseason moment in the same way Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has dominated this series for the Blue Jays.

With one “How did he do that?” swing on a ball not designed to be a home run, Judge changed the narrative after his costly Game 1 strikeout that helped swing the contest in the Blue Jays’ favor.

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“I get yelled at for swinging at them out of the zone, but now I’m getting praised for it. It’s a game,” Judge said. “You’ve got to go out there and play. I don’t care what the numbers say or where something was at, I’m just up there trying to put a good swing on a good pitch, and it looked good to me.”