"I knew I was getting close, but I felt like I couldn’t slow down," McMahon told SNY's Michelle Margaux after the game. "Just kept going, just trying to get outs for Cam."

"It went up, and then I felt like I saw, kind of my periphery, I feel like he's got a beat on it, but I know where he is headed, and he's on the dead run, so it just flashed back to Gio Urshela a couple years ago when he went flying into the dugout against Tampa late in the season," manager Aaron Boone recalled. "I came sprinting out of the dugout because I knew it could be dangerous over there. Great play by a great defender."

Facing off against the southpaw Connelly Early, McMahon wasn't in the starting lineup but came in late for Amed Rosario for defensive purposes. While the left-handed hitter hasn't provided much offense since they acquired him before the trade deadline, the Yankees needed him for his glove, and his teammates could not help but gush over the play he made that helped the Yankees make it back to the ALDS.

"Unreal. Glad he’s ok," Giancarlo Stanton said of the play. "Just shows how good he is, how hard he plays."

"I thought he was dead," Austin Wells said.

"That was crazy. Scared the hell out of me, but it was sick," Jazz Chisholm Jr. said. "I've never done that before so I think it's super sick."

"That’s why we got him," Aaron Judge said of McMahon. "Go out there and get the best third baseman for a reason. Got some big clutch hits for us, but it’s plays like that in crunch time, that’s why you go out there and get a guy like that."

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