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The Yankees trailed 6-1 in third inning Tuesday, then rallied for a 9-6 win over the Blue Jays to keep their season alive.

NEW YORK — It was do-or-die and the Yankees were dying.

The Yankees were blown out twice last weekend in Toronto and it was happening again Tuesday night in Game 3 of their Division Series, this time at Yankee Stadium.

By the third inning, the Blue Jays were up 6-1 with Vladimir Guerrero Jr. up to his old tricks.

Anticipating another season without championship No. 28, the crowd of 47,399 sat in stunned silence.

Everyone gave up on the Yankees … except the Yankees.

Not on Aaron Judge’s watch.

In one of the greatest comebacks in postseason history, the Yankees roared back for a 9-6 victory to force a Game 4 on Wednesday night.

We’ve been waiting for years for Judge to add a great postseason moment to his Hall of Fame resume and it arrived in the fourth inning.

With the Yankees back in the game down three runs, the two-time MVP and 2025 AL batting champ tied it up with a towering blast to left field that looked like it might go foul until it banged high off the left-field foul pole.

Judge had no business homering on this 0-2 pitch, a 100-mph fastball from Blue Jays reliever Louie Varland that was about a foot inside.

Amazing.

The Yankees had the lead one inning later when Jazz Chisholm homered to right off Varland to make it 7-6.

The Yanks tacked on two insurance runs in the middle innings, then held on turn the tables on the Blue Jays, who jumped out to a 2-0 series lead in this best of five by winning 10-1 and 13-7 last weekend at Rogers Stadium.

By the first inning of Game 3, the Blue Jays had a 2-0 lead when Yankees starter Carlos Rodon walked Davis Schneider with one out and Guerrero followed with his third homer of the series.

The Yankees scored an unearned run in the bottom of the first to make it 2-1, but Blue Jays knocked out Rodon in the third when they scored four runs.

It looked like game, set, match.

It wasn’t.

Not even close.

The Yankees scored two in the third on an RBI double by Judge and sacrifice fly by Giancarlo Stanton while sending Blue Jays starter Shane Bieber to the showers, then tied it in the fourth.

The game-tying rally began with more help, a one-out dropped popup by Blue Jays third baseman Addison Barger for a two-base error. Trent Grisham walked to put two on for Judge, who greeted Varland with his first homer in six postseason games this year and 17th for his career.

The next inning, Chisholm blasted a 400-foot homer to right on a 1-1, 99-mph fastball from Varland that almost split the plate above the knees.

The Yankees aren’t dead.

They’re back in this series with a lot of confidence and the Blue Jays knowing blew a great shot to sweep their way into the ALCS.

NOTABLE

--Judge was 3-for-4 with a homer, double and intentional walk. He’s hitting .500 in the postseason with 11 hits in 22 at-bats.

--Working more than one inning for the first time all season, Yankees reliever Devin Williams pitched a scoreless seventh and retiring the leadoff batter in the Blue Jays eighth.

--During the Blue Jays’ four-run fourth, Schneider scored from second base. On a liner to left-center field off Cody Bellinger’s glove, Grisham threw to second base instead of home and then Chisholm never bothered to look home until it was too late.

-- The Yankees avoided damage when Rodon covered first base late when Ernie Clement led off the Blue Jays’ second with a grounder to first base that became a gift single.

-- Yankees advance scouting director Brett Weber is in charge of advising manager Aaron Boone on replay challenges and they were out of them by the third inning. The Yankees lost one in the second trying to overturn a Blue Jays hit and another in the third when Grisham wasn’t awarded first base on catcher’s inference.

-- Having no challenges cost the Yankees an opportunity to dispute Austin Wells being called out at second base when he tried to take an extra base after a throw to the plate on his fifth-inning, two-out RBI single.