Aaron Judge is throwing all the shade.
The Yankees slugger hit a two-out single up the middle in the top of the third inning in the Bombers’ 3-0, 10-inning loss to the Blue Jays on Wednesday, and capped it off by covering his eyes.
Judge, who went 1-for-3 with two walks in the loss, has been at the center of controversy during the four-game set in Toronto after he was seen on camera shifting his eyes toward the Yankees dugout before blasting a 426-foot home run during Monday’s series opener.
That set off plenty of speculation from fans and analysts while raising tensions between the teams — and irking Judge, who also threw some shade at the controversy on Tuesday.
Judge on Monday said he was looking at his teammates in the dugout, who were lively after manager Aaron Boone had been ejected.
“There was a lot of chirping from our dugout, which I didn’t really like in a situation where it’s a 6-0 game and [Boone] got tossed,” Judge said. “I was trying to save Boonie by calling timeout, like, ‘Hey, hold up here. Let me work here.’ I was kind of trying to see who was chirping in the dugout; it’s 6-0 and Boonie got tossed. Let’s just go to work. I’m kind of looking, like, ‘Who’s still talking here?’”
Toronto reliever Jay Jackson, whom Judge teed off on with the monster homer, later revealed he had been tipping his pitches.
“From what I was told, I was kind of tipping the pitch, … They were kind of picking up on it,” Jackson told The Athletic.