The New York Yankees are one win away from advancing to the league championship.

The Yankees won 3-2 in Game 3 of the American League Division Series (DS) against the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium on the 10th (Korean time), thanks to a game-winning home run by Giancarlo Stanton, taking the series lead with 2 wins and 1 loss.

The Yankees need one more win to advance to the ALCS for the first time in two years since 2022. They advanced to the ALCS that year after beating the Cleveland Guardians 3-2 in the DS, but lost to the Houston Astros 4-0.

After winning Game 1 6-5 and losing Game 2 2-4, the Yankees had to fight a close Game 3 as well.

Starter Clark Schmidt kept the score low, allowing two runs on four hits over 4⅔ innings through the middle of the game, before the winning combination of Clay Holmes, Tommy Canley and Luke Weaver held the team to two hits and no runs over the remaining 4⅓ innings.

Yankees manager Aaron Boone immediately replaced Schmidt, who had been pitching four scoreless innings, after allowing back-to-back doubles and triples to Kyle Isbell and Michael Massey and an infield hit to Adam Frazier with two outs in the fifth to tie the game at 2-2.

Canley pitched in the seventh and earned the win with 1½ no-hit, scoreless innings, while Weaver closed the game with 1⅔ no-run, two-hit innings with one out in the eighth.

The Yankees brought Soto back in the top of the fourth after he walked leadoff hitter Juan Soto and with two outs, he yanked a 91.3 mph sinker from Kansas City starter Seth Lugo and hit it into the bottom of the left-center field wall for a double.

In the fifth, Soto hit a sacrifice fly to center field with one out and runners on second and third on Anthony Volpi's single to center, and Alex Verdugo's sacrifice bunt to make it 2-0. But Kansas City tied the game in the bottom of the fifth, and the game became a tight pitching duel.

The Yankees scored the winning run in the top of the eighth when Stanton hit a solo home run with one out to tie the game at 2-2. Stanton hit his second pitch, an 85.2 mph inside slider from left-hander Kris Bubic, with a 3-1 count and a launch angle of 35 degrees, exit velocity of 112.9 mph, and a distance of 417 mph. It was Stanton's first home run of the postseason.

It's been 3,268 days since a postseason game was played at Kauffman Stadium since Game 2 of the 2015 World Series between the Kansas City Royals and the New York Mets, and 43,122 Kansas City fans were in attendance that day but turned away after a disappointing loss.

Yankees prospect Aaron Judge, who is expected to be the AL MVP, was silent. He went 0-for-4 with one walk. In this DS3 game, he went 1-for-11 (.091), three walks, and five strikeouts. Judge has a career postseason batting average of .203 (37-for-182), 13 homers, 25 RBIs, 30 runs, and a .748 OPS.

With 58 home runs, 144 RBIs and a 1.159 OPS during the regular season, Judge is a surefire MVP for the second time in 2022.

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