NEW YORK — The Yankees are having a number of issues with the Blue Jays within the ALDS, however Aaron Choose isn’t certainly one of them. The MVP favourite hit a game-tying three-run house run off the left discipline pole Tuesday night time at Yankee Stadium (GameTracker), serving to the Yankees erase an early 6-1 deficit in Sport 3.

This was Choose’s first house run of the 2025 postseason and in addition his sixth profession homer along with his staff dealing with elimination, tying Corridor of Famer David Ortiz for essentially the most in historical past.

Choose has been criticized, not unfairly, for an absence of postseason affect all through his profession. He entered 2025 as a .199/.313/.435 hitter in 57 profession postseason video games, numbers far beneath his immense regular-season manufacturing. Even with the Yankees dealing with elimination, Choose is getting the playoff monkey off his again this 12 months. He’s now 10 for 19 in New York’s 5 video games.

The Blue Jays once more battered the Yankees’ beginning pitcher in Sport 3. Carlos Rodón was tagged for six runs whereas recording solely seven outs. In three ALDS video games, New York’s starters — Luis Gil, Max Fried, Rodón — mixed to throw eight innings. The Yankees have been taking part in catch-up the whole sequence.

An inning after Choose tied Sport 3, Jazz Chisholm Jr. hit his first house run of the postseason and Austin Wells drove in one other run to offer the Yankees an 8-6 lead. It’s their first lead of the sequence. Toronto has a 2-0 lead within the best-of-five.