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New York Post
17 May 2023


NextImg:Aaron Judge’s go-ahead homer propels Yankees by Blue Jays in tense affair

TORONTO — Perhaps throwing sliders down the middle to Aaron Judge is the Blue Jays’ real problem instead of where his eyes go or where the Yankees’ base coaches stand.

Just about 24 hours after crushing a home run during an at-bat Monday night that set off accusations over Judge glancing elsewhere potentially to pick up signs from his first-base coach — which led to a chippy start to Tuesday’s game — the captain unleashed another booming blast to lift the Yankees to a 6-3 win at Rogers Centre.

Judge’s two-run, 448-foot home run to center field, off a center-cut slider from Erik Swanson, broke a 3-3 tie.

With the boos raining down on him as he rounded the bases, Judge pointed to center field, where he did some damage to the WestJet sign that took the brunt of his homer.

The win kept the Yankees’ momentum alive, winning for the 10th time in their last 14 games, despite losing Domingo German entering the bottom of the fourth inning after he was ejected following a sticky-substance check.

That forced them to patch together the final six innings, which started off on the wrong foot as Ian Hamilton left the game with a groin injury after throwing just two-thirds of an inning and then Ron Marinaccio gave up a three-run fifth inning that tied the game.

Aaron Judges tosses the bat after hitting an eighth-inning home run.
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But Ryan Weber delivered 2 ¹/₃ huge innings of scoreless relief before Clay Holmes and Wandy Peralta closed it out.

The AL East rivalry added another chapter of drama that carried over from Monday night, when the Blue Jays suspected that Judge may have been looking at first-base coach Travis Chapman for a tip on a pitch — a slider over the heart of the plate — that he crushed for a home run, followed by both sides digging in their heels leading up to Tuesday’s first pitch.

Yankees

The Yankees’ Isiah Kiner-Falefa, right, celebrates with Jose Trevino after hitting a solo home run off Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Kevin Gausman on Tuesday.
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Major League Baseball, after finding no indication of a major rules violation on Monday night, was expected to remind the Yankees of coaches’ positioning before Tuesday’s game.

That did little to temper the tensions between the two teams, though.

It only took two-plus innings until the game was interrupted by the Blue Jays seemingly complaining about Yankees third-base coach Luis Rojas setting up outside of the box in the top of the third.

Blue Jays pitching coach Pete Walker and manager John Schneider appeared to be barking at Rojas from the opposite end of the dugout from where they stood for most of the game, which resulted in two umpires having an extended conversation with Rojas.

Then in a bizarre bottom of the fourth inning that began with German getting ejected, Boone was yelling and pointing from the dugout about Blue Jays third-base coach Luis Rivera setting up outside of the box. Home plate umpire James Hoye had Rivera take a few steps toward the box before play resumed.

Still, for much of the night, base coaches from both teams were routinely set up outside of the coaches’ box — as they are on a nightly basis around the league.

Yankees

Domingo German was ejected for sticky-stuff in the Yankees’ win over the Blue Jays on Tuesday.
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Judge’s go-ahead blast in the eighth inning only added to the tension, with the reigning AL MVP playing the villain role. But it also helped cover up a brutal night from Gleyber Torres, who was thrown out on the base paths twice and then made a costly decision on a ground ball in the eighth to throw late to second base, which extended the inning before Holmes escaped the jam.