Aaron Judge officially gets the last laugh against Blue Jays

After the Blue Jays seemed to accuse Aaron Judge and the Yankees of cheating, the slugger got the last laugh with a go-ahead home run that was tattooed.

It’s been an eventful trip to Toronto for New York Yankees superstar Aaron Judge. During a two-home run performance against the Blue Jays to start the AL East series on Monday night, the Toronto broadcast appeared to insinuate that Judge might be cheating somehow at the plate.

That, of course, spawned a ton of controversy on Tuesday. There was the cut-and-dry debate about if Judge was cheating, Blue Jays fans showering the slugger with boos during his first trip to the plate, Yankees and Jays coaches getting into it over where New York’s base coaches were standing, and plenty more (including Domingo Germán actually cheating and getting ejected for sticky stuff).

After all of that, though, Aaron Judge did what he does best: Hit the baseball a very long way.

With the game tied 3-3 in the top of the eighth inning, Judge came up to the plate with one on. Erik Swanson then served up an 86 mph meatball down the heart of the plate, which the Yankees star deposited 448 feet away in the centerfield bleachers.

Aaron Judge sticks it to Blue Jays at the plate with go-ahead home run for Yankees

It’s a credit to Judge who, outside of maybe taking a little time to trot around the bases, wasn’t all that demonstrative and sticking it to the Blue Jays with his performance on the field. That’s phenomenal stuff from him.

But really, Judge confirmed what anyone with half a brain could see from Monday night. Yes, he looked at his base coach — but the Jays were using PitchCom and fake hand signals, so that wasn’t helping it. The actual lesson of his two home runs was to not throw a guy who hit 62 homers a year ago six consecutive sliders, especially when you hang one.

That’s a lesson that the Blue Jays apparently did not learn. Subsequently, amid this fake scandal, it was Judge who got the last laugh, and seemed to push the Yankees to another feather in their cap with a win on Tuesday.