Aaron Judge’s long-awaited playoff moment arrived in nick of time for Yankees

There was just no way the Yankees were going to be able to get back into this Division Series, just no way to begin to see the window through which they could fit a three-game winning streak, just no chance to form a belief system about possibility if Aaron Judge did not only hit, but hit for more meaning than ever in his postseason life.

 So consider Tuesday night a brilliant first step:

 The Aaron Judge Game.

 This was the night in which Judge threw the October monkey off his back and the Yankees on his broad shoulders. The game in which he did everything. Hit. Hit for power. Hit in the most timely fashion possible. Fielded. Ran the bases. Induced fear.