Yankees' Aaron Judge meets his October moment at last

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NEW YORK -- Never were the questions of Aaron Judge's fitness for October particularly fair, but that's life for the biggest man in the biggest city whose biggest failures had come at the biggest times. The burden of greatness is heavy. The burden of greatness in New York is planetary. And for those unleashing screeds on Judge's postseasons -- on hot take shows and sports-talk radio and in bars and at family dinners and everywhere, really, that anyone talks about the Yankees -- it was never about whether they were fair. After all, his performances had been undeniably foul.

Judge never paid any of this any mind because he does not wire himself to do so. He cares about…