The Blue Jays TV broadcast raised suspicion of Aaron Judge just before his second home run on Monday night, pointing out that Judge glanced over towards first base multiple times in his eighth inning at-bat, wondering why he would be doing that before launching a 462 foot home run.
Speculation, unsurprisingly, spread like wildfire across social media, but Judge explained after the game that he was glancing over towards his own dugout along the first base line, trying to get a glance at who was “chirping” at the umpires after Aaron Boone had gotten thrown out for arguing a strike call on Judge.
“There was a lot of chirping from our dugout, which I really didn’t like because of the situation where it was a 6-0 game,” Judge said. “Boonie got tossed, I was trying to save Boonie by calling timeout, just saying ‘Hey, hold up here, let me work here.’ I was kind of trying to see who was chirping in the dugout. It was 6-0, Boonie got tossed, let’s just go to work.
“I’m looking like, ‘Who’s still talking here?’ it’s 6-0, our manager got tossed, he did his job, let’s go back to work.”
Judge, while standing in the box facing the pitcher, glanced with his eyes to his right multiple times in that at-bat, and Toronto announcers Dan Shulman and Buck Martinez wondered aloud why he would be doing that, but Judge repeated that, as the captain, he wanted to see who was still giving it to the umpires during a blowout in the late stages of the game.
“I feel like after the manager does his thing, our pitcher still has to go out there and make some pitches,” Judge said. “We have the lead, let’s just go to work here. I said some things to the guys in the dugout and after the game. Hopefully it won’t happen again.”
As for the eventual mammoth home run, the pitch was an 83 mph cement mixer that hung right out over the plate, and was the fifth slider from Jay Jackson.
“He was throwing me a lot of sliders,” Judge said. “And that one stayed up.”
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