NEW YORK -- In a heavyweight fight for the ages, the Blue Jays couldn’t keep their gloves up.

It was all sitting right in front of them, up 6-1 in the top of the third with the Yankee Stadium crowd ready to turn its frustrations from Toronto to their own team. All the Blue Jays needed to do was play Blue Jays baseball, but for the first time this postseason, they left themselves wide open.

Tuesday’s 9-6 loss to extend the ALDS to a Game 4 Wednesday night in New York was a loss of Toronto’s own making. Sure, Aaron Judge delivered a playoff moment they might be replaying for years in New York with a three-run shot off the foul pole in left field, but the Blue Jays just kept inviting the Yankees to land the big blow. Their lapses in defense were the stunner in all of this.

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