Curtis Granderson: Yankees’ comeback win ‘shifts pressure back to Toronto’
Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Caroline Fenton and Jason Fitz are joined by former MLB player Curtis Granderson to discuss Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees’ comeback against the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 3 of their ALDS series. Watch the full episode of Yahoo Sports Daily on YouTube or YahooSports.TV .
Video Transcript
Those Yankee fans definitely started to feel it when they started the Let's Go Blue Jays chant.
In Yankee Stadium.
You start thinking, okay, are the Blue Jays fans going to come and support, come across the border, or the ones that are in the US going to come out, pay an expensive ticket to potentially see their team sweep the Yankees, and it started to look like it was happening that way.
Then all of a sudden you have a chance for a big moment with Aaron Judge.
Can he deliver in the postseason?
And the thing is, he's been delivering.
Yeah, there are some times where he's not gonna get it done every time, but he's up there in home run ranks for the Yankees historically in the postseason.
He had 10 hits in this postseason so far before that big moment.
Now he's just kind of kept the door open because their season remains on because of one big swing of the bat from the potential MVP candidate, from the Judge, from somebody that has a section in Yankee Stadium that is dedicated to him in the fans in the seating area in right field.
So, it's a definitely amazing moment.
It keeps things going over there.
Derek Jeter and their cast with Fox talked about if you can just win one, then that continues to give you a lot of optimism and chances.
And we forget about that.
Everyone goes, okay, they've got to win three in a row.
Well, you can't win three until you win one.
And now they've won one, and now a lot of that pressure shifts back to Toronto.
But in this series, you have to give credit where credit's due.
Each team has won at home, which is what you're supposed to do.
So can the Yankees keep that going and win another game at home in Yankee Stadium?
They've got some momentum.
Those bats need to come alive, but the pitching has to find a way to get Vlad Junior out.
This is the hottest man on the planet.
