{"id":296240,"date":"2021-07-11T12:27:34","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T09:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/aaron-judge-on-jose-altuve-like-jersey-tug-pretty-chilly-park\/"},"modified":"2021-07-11T12:27:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T09:27:34","slug":"aaron-judge-on-jose-altuve-like-jersey-tug-pretty-chilly-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/aaron-judge-on-jose-altuve-like-jersey-tug-pretty-chilly-park\/","title":{"rendered":"#Aaron Judge on Jose Altuve-like jersey tug: ‘Pretty chilly’ park"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Aaron Judge on Jose Altuve-like jersey tug: ‘Pretty chilly’ park<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Aaron Judge returned to Houston with a bang \u2014 and created plenty of buzz with his trip<\/a> around the bases after hitting a home run.<\/p>\n

The Yankees outfielder took Zack Greinke deep for a solo homer in the third inning \u2014 the decisive strike in the Yankees\u2019 1-0 win over the Astros thanks to Gerrit Cole\u2019s complete-game<\/a> gem \u2014 and as he app<\/a>roached third base, Judge tugged at the front of his jersey. He appeared to be mocking Jose Altuve, who famously grabbed his jersey and shook his finger to tell his teammates not to rip it off after hitting a walk-off homer in Game 6 of the 2019 ALCS against the Yankees.<\/p>\n

At the time, many believed Altuve was wearing a buzzer to help signal what pitch was coming. A subsequent MLB investigation showed no evidence there was a buzzer, but that hardly quieted the speculation \u2014 though it may have been a bit more believable than Judge\u2019s explanation for his jersey pull Saturday night.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhenever they keep the roof closed here it\u2019s pretty chilly,\u201d Judge said with a straight face of Minute Maid Park, where the temperature at first pitch was 73 degrees. \u201cSo it\u2019s just letting my team know to button up a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked if that meant social media<\/a> incorrectly assumed he was trolling Altuve, Judge let out a grin.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone\u2019s welcome to their own opinion,\u201d he said with a chuckle.<\/p>\n

\u201cProbably just some playful banter,\u201d catcher Kyle Higashioka said with a laugh.<\/p>\n

This series<\/a> marks the Yankees\u2019 first trip to Houston since the game-winning homer by Altuve off Aroldis Chapman. In the offseason, news<\/a> broke of the Astros\u2019 illegal sign-stealing scheme \u2014 which included banging trash cans to alert batters what pitch was coming \u2014 that had been operational in 2017, when they also knocked the Yankees out of the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Judge was one of the many Yankees who were vocal about their strong feelings regarding the Astros after their cheating was revealed. He also didn\u2019t fully buy that the cheating stopped in 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, it\u2019s tough to think that it didn\u2019t continue,\u201d Judge said in February 2020. \u201cI don\u2019t know all the facts; nobody knows all the facts, to be honest. So to think that they cheated and won it all in \u201917, to think that they just clear-cut stopped the next \u2014 \u201919 or \u201918 \u2014 it\u2019s tough for me to say that. But we\u2019ll never really know.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Judge told The Post\u2019s Dan Martin that he has not spoken to Altuve since the 2019 playoffs. They were originally set to be teammates for the American League in Tuesday\u2019s All-Star Game, but Altuve has pulled out of the game in order, he said, to rest and get healthy for the second half.<\/p>\n