When Harrison Bader stepped to the plate in the second inning, he had more home runs in this series than did Aaron James Judge, who, you might recall, hit 62 of them during the regular season.
CLEVELAND — Harrison Bader was supposed to be the athlete in center field, and the guy running around the bases with his hair on fire — if there was any hair left from the heavy cut required in the transition from St. Louis Cardinal to New York Yankee.
And here in Cleveland, the offensively challenged Guardians scored three Game 3 runs in the ninth to force the favored Yankees to play Game 4 for their lives. When Bader stepped to the Progressive Field plate in the second inning, he had more home runs in this series than did Aaron James Judge, who, you might recall, hit 62 of them during the regular season.
What a stunning turn of events. Back when Montgomery was letting it rip for the Cardinals, and Bader was too busy rehabbing his foot to play for his childhood team, the trade didn’t look like one general manager Brian Cashman would be bragging about at cocktail parties.
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