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It sure looked dicey off the bat, didn’t it? It sure looked like Ceddanne Rafaela had caught David Bednar’s 97 mph fastball square, sending the ball straight to the Yankee Stadium twilight zone, toward the short porch in right, the built-in optical illusion that makes it seem like every reasonably hit fly ball has a shot to find hands.

And this … this felt like it had a shot.

But Aaron Judge sprinted straight for the warning track and then he halted four steps onto the warning track. This is when 47,993 witnesses began to breathe again. A few seconds later the ball was in Judge’s glove, and the normall

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