Judge’s walk-off 3-run homer gives Yankees victory over Blue Jays

May 11, 2022

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Aaron Judge scored a massive three-run run in the ninth to score his first major league walk-off homer. This gave the New York Yankees a 6-5 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays.

Giancarlo Stanton tied this score in the sixth with a small three-run run. The Yankees rallied to their 14th victory after 16 games of losing.

New York overcame a rocky beginning by Luis Severino, and improved to 21-8. This is the best record in majors baseball.

George Springer’s leadoff homer was for Toronto. Lourdes Guriel Jr. made a tiebreaking double to end the eighth, which helped the Blue Jays gain a 5-3 advantage.

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No. 9 batter Jose Trevino, and DJ LeMahieu both drew consecutive one out walks in the ninth. (1-2) Before Judge sent a hanging slide 1-2 slider 450ft into the second deck in right field. The big slugger, who was brought to the plate by Double-A Trenton in Apri 2015. He did a little dance before being surrounded by eager teammates.

Stanton and Judge have both homered in the same game twenty times, including the postseason. The Yankees have won 19 consecutive games.

Romano was leading the majors’ saves at the start of the night with 14 saves.

Wandy Peralta (1-0), pitched an ineffective ninth pitch for the win.

Santiago Espinal had an early two-run double — originally ruled a home run — as Toronto quickly built a 3-0 lead against Severino, who started on eight days’ rest.

Yusei Kakuchi pitched five scoreless innings, before Stanton tied it in the sixth. Stanton scored with a three-run homer from reliever Yimi Garcia that cleared Yankee Stadium’s short right field porch by only a few rows. Statcast reports that the 335-foot drive wouldn’t have been a homer in any other major league baseball park.

That’s when all the fireworks really began.

Garcia ejected, Toronto takes lead in 8th inning

Garcia struck the next batter Josh Donaldson just above the left elbow pad, with a 94 mph fastball, on an 0-1 count.

The New York bench was not happy with it but Donaldson went calmly to first base while the umpires met on the infield grass.

After much discussion, Alfonso Marquez, the crew chief, expelled Garcia. This angered the pitcher as well as several Blue Jays who rushed out of the dugout. After heated discussion, Marquez also tossed Pete Walker, the pitching coach.

After Yankees reliever Jonathan Loaisiga hit Bo Bichette with a fastball of 97 mph in the seventh, Lance Barrett, the Blue Jays’ plate umpire, noticed something and expelled Charlie Montoyo.

Toronto found its footing and produced a two-run rally to win the eighth. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. took the leadoff walk from Loaisiga, and raced all of the way home with a headfirst slip on Gurriel’s line-drive double to leftfield off Chad Green.

Gurriel moved to third on throw home and was awarded a score on Alejandro Kirk’s sacrifice fly.

Toronto has lost three straight, and six out of eight.