{"id":338131,"date":"2021-09-12T07:47:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T04:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/aaron-judge-saves-yankees-for-one-night-vs-mets\/"},"modified":"2021-09-12T07:47:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T04:47:53","slug":"aaron-judge-saves-yankees-for-one-night-vs-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/aaron-judge-saves-yankees-for-one-night-vs-mets\/","title":{"rendered":"#Aaron Judge saves Yankees for one night vs. Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Aaron Judge saves Yankees for one night vs. Mets<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/joel-sherman.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Joel Sherman\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/joel-sherman.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/joel-sherman.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Yankees needed a hero more than Lois Lane on her worst day.<\/p>\n<p>They were at the crossroads of reeling and rotting, performing as if simply playing the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> of baseball were their kryptonite. They were closing in on an eighth straight loss, about to fall out of a playoff spot for the first time in four weeks, feeling that horrible sensation like you just might never win another game.<\/p>\n<p>They had squandered a five-run lead as their offense went dead and their pitching drip, drip, dripped runs to the Mets. They needed someone to step up and be, well, super.<\/p>\n<p>Cue, Aaron Judge. He hit two homers, including a two-run shot to tie the score in the eighth inning \u2014 as big a hit as the Yankees have had in two weeks of misery. He then earned a save of his own with a sprawling catch to begin the ninth inning to assist a teetering Aroldis Chapman gain the official save in what became a desperately needed 8-7 Subway <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Series<\/a> victory Saturday at Citi Field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA special night for a great player,\u201d Aaron Boone said of his fellow Aaron.<\/p>\n<p>It was just a special night overall, as New York baseball commemorated the 20th anniversary of the 9\/11 attacks. In a symbolic moment, Yankees and Mets shook hands and hugged in the pregame, then rather than each team taking a baseline, they mixed for the national anthem.<\/p>\n<p>They then entertained the 43,000-plus with a tense, dramatic, back-and-forth game that Judge, among others, might have helped win beginning the previous evening.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/091121MetsYankees76CW.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Yankees\" class=\"wp-image-19427663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/091121MetsYankees76CW.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/091121MetsYankees76CW.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/091121MetsYankees76CW.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Aaron Judge watched his two-run homer in the eighth inning against the Mets on Saturday.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Following a 10-3 humiliation Friday night against the Mets and a seventh straight loss, a few players including Judge called a meeting and foremost on the slugger\u2019s mind was to tell his teammates, \u201cWe are the New York Yankees. It is an honor and privilege to wear these pins<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>es and play for this team.\u201d He conveyed that the grind from spring training forward was about getting to now with a chance to get into the playoffs, that now was the fun time and to \u201cgo have some magic h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And, poof, for the first time since they won their 13th straight on Aug. 27, the Yanks assembled a five-run lead in the second inning via homers by Kyle Higashioka, Brett Gardner and Judge. They had only topped five runs once in the previous 10 games. But these are the 2021 Yankees. Nothing easy.<\/p>\n<p>        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Podcast\" width=\"100%\" height=\"188px\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/pinstripe-pod\/remembering9-11andamemorableyankeesteamfeat.mikestanton?accentColor=2a2a2a&amp;bgColor=f6f6f6&amp;font-family=proxima%20nova&amp;logo=false&amp;secondaryColor=cc3333\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden;\"><br \/>\n        <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Following Judge\u2019s first homer, the Yanks went hitless in their next 16 at-bats, coinciding with the Mets generating seven runs. The scoreboard already showed that Toronto had rallied in the final inning of both ends of a doubleheader to beat Baltimore. A Yankees loss would drop them into fourth in the AL East and out of a wild-card spot.<\/p>\n<p>But Gardner ended the Yankees\u2019 hitless streak by leading off the eighth with a single. Trevor May then tried to deceive Judge with a 1-0 changeup. The Yankees\u2019 best player responded with a high, arcing drive to left field for his 32nd homer. That tied the score. The Yankees would produce the go-ahead run later in the inning on a Javier Baez throwing error.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the shaky Chapman would have to protect a one-run lead in the ninth, which Baez opened with a sinking liner to right that Judge raced forward and with a lunge turned into an out. Who knows what follows if that were a hit, but J.D. Davis followed with a double before Chapman settled down to protect the lead.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/091121MetsYankees104CW.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1000\" alt=\"Aaron Judge\" class=\"wp-image-19427678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/091121MetsYankees104CW.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/091121MetsYankees104CW.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=500 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\"\/><figcaption>Aaron Judge makes a diving catch against the Mets in the ninth inning on Saturday. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201c[Judge] can impact a game in so many ways,\u201d Corey Kluber said.<\/p>\n<p>Kluber is part of a Yankees pitching staff that for a variety of reasons \u2014 injury, persistent high-stress usage \u2014 that has been faltering. Kluber has made three starts off the injured list and lasted 11 \u00b2\/\u2083 innings in total (four on Saturday) and permitted 11 runs. It marked the eighth time in 12 games that the Yankees had a starter last fewer than five innings \u2014 and fifth of four or fewer. It was central to them losing 11 of 13.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Kluber was out of the game, the Mets were ahead and \u2014 on the subject of short starts \u2014 Andrew Heaney was perhaps the leading candidate to start Sunday\u2019s game. It brought greater desperation to the Yankee situation, elevated the need for heroics.<\/p>\n<p>Again, cue, Judge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think I really have words\u201d Kluber said of trying to describe Judge\u2019s impact on the win.<\/p>\n<p>The Yanks, tied at 79-63 with the Blue Jays, needed someone to rise. 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