Aaron Judge walked to the plate, based loaded, none out, sixth inning, the sold out crowd near silent and John Schneider for wanted to be sick.

For the moment, anyhow.

Nathan Lukes already felt sick — and it had nothing to do with the game situation.

“I was under the weather already,” he said. “Just trying to get through the night.”

The greatest hitter in baseball is a huge man, with giant arms, a giant smile and a bat that seems the size of an entire stadium. But Kevin Gausman wouldn’t or couldn’t succumb to Judge.

“I had complete faith in Gausman in that situation,” said Lukes. “It’s as simple as that.”

And then Mighty Casey struck out with the Blue Jays leading 2-0 in the sixth without any poem to reference. Gausman would face two more batters before calling it a rather sound play

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