First, it was a sideways look. Now, it’s standing in the wrong spot? The Blue Jays are just milking this half-baked Aaron Judge cheating scandal.
The series in which a superstar gets accused of cheating is bound to be an exciting one. The New York Yankees and the Toronto Blue Jays are at it again, this time stirring the pot mid-game.
At the top of the third inning, each team’s coaches got into a bit of a defensive shouting match. Blue Jays manager John Schneider started yelling at Yankees third base coach Luis Rojas for apparently leaving the coaches box. Per the game’s announcer, Schneider said Rojas was “too far out of the third baseline.”
Blue Jays pitching coach Pete Walker also walked to the outfield side of the dugout and told Rojas to stay in the box; Rojas was yelling back at both of them indignantly, defending his position.
The camera briefly pans to both Schneider and Walker, Walker with a semi-triumphant look on his face and Schneider saying, “Shut up, fat boy” to someone on the Yankees side. Y’all are cool with fat-shaming but not with coaches stepping a little bit out of bounds? Cool.
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Blue Jays and Yankees lock horns again over trivial matter
The Blue Jays third base coach, by the way, did the exact same thing earlier in the game, as one savvy Twitter user retorted.
In the ensuing game delay, Yankees general manager Aaron Boone jogged onto the field to talk things over with Rojas and the umpires all the while Blue Jays fan continue booing — because that’s what they’re trained to do now. See Judge or any other sketchy Yankees player doing sketchy activities? Boo immediately.
Boone and the Yankees tried to argue with the umpires that the inning before, Toronto’s third base coach was deep and out of the coaches’ box (he was), and it’s unclear if the umpires came to any sort of conclusion.
Here’s one conclusion from the fans themselves:
After Aaron Judge’s alleged cheating scandal in Game 1 of the Yankees-Blue Jays series, the heat has risen up a notch.
At the time of this writing, the Yankees are up 2-0 at the bottom of the fourth.