TORONTO — Aaron Judge walked up to the plate with the bases loaded and nobody out in the sixth inning as the Yankees trailed 2-0 on Saturday.
The situation couldn’t have been better for a momentum-shifting inning in Game 1 of the AL Division Series against the Blue Jays.
Instead, the Yankees scored one run in their biggest chance to dig their way out of an early hole and potentially go steal the opener at Rogers Centre, finding a new way to lose in their house of horrors.
The Blue Jays survived a big scare, then poured it on late in a 10-1 whipping, taking a 1-0 lead in the best-of-five series that continues Sunday afternoon.
The Yankees thought this visit to Canada would be different after looking like the Bad News Bears in making 11 errors while losing six of seven during their two