The Yankees have been here before, including Aaron Judge.
No. 99 was a rookie in 2017, when the Yanks dropped the first two games of the AL Division Series in Cleveland, only to take care of business in the next two in The Bronx before closing it out on the road with a 5-2 win in Game 5 behind two home runs by Didi Gregorius.
Judge went 0-for-5 batting ahead of Gregorius that night to finish his first career playoff series with an anemic batting average of .050 (1-for-20) with no home runs and 16 strikeouts, his first of several poor postseason showings for the Yankees over the past decade.
Down 0-2 again while headed back to The Bronx for Game 3 on Tuesday night — after getting thumped in Toronto by a 23-8 aggregate — the Yankees need a lot to change in order to push this five-game set back to Canada.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
