Aaron Judge belts another homer vs. Blue Jays as Yankees win series

TORONTO — At this point, it seems like Aaron Judge could hit a home run at Rogers Centre with his eyes closed.

A four-game set that began with allegations that Judge was peeking at his first-base coach to get some help before hitting his second home run on Monday ended with the Yankees’ captain delivering another towering blast to help win the series.

Judge’s fourth home run of the series, a two-run shot in the first inning, staked the Yankees out to an early lead before they hung on for dear life with a short bullpen to escape with a 4-2 win over the Blue Jays.

Aaron Hicks’ RBI single in the top of the seventh inning at the time extended the Yankees’ lead to 3-1, and it ultimately proved to be the winning run on a night when most of Aaron Boone’s high-leverage relievers were unavailable.

Instead, after Nestor Cortes ran out of gas following a leadoff walk in the bottom of the seventh, Boone and the Yankees bullpen performed a high-wire act over the final three innings with the unlikely trio of Ryan Weber, Albert Abreu and Ron Marinaccio.

After taking three of four against the Blue Jays (25-19), the Yankees (26-20) have now won eight of their last 11 games.

Weber relieved Cortes and loaded the bases with no outs, but limited the damage to just a sacrifice fly to pinch-hitter Vladimir Guerrero Jr. to get out of the jam with the Yankees clinging on to a 3-2 lead.

Abreu came on for the eighth and retired the heart of the Blue Jays’ order on 16 pitches.

And after Anthony Volpe added a solo home run in the top of the ninth for a much-needed insurance run, Marinaccio pitched the ninth and locked it down for his first career save.

Of course, the series did not end without some more banter between the two dugouts.

In the fifth inning, TV cameras captured Boone shouting at Blue Jays pitching coach Pete Walker, who two nights earlier had been yelling at Yankees third-base coach Luis Rojas for not standing within the coaches’ box.

Boone appeared to shout, “You’re f–king crazy — crazy. Sit the f–k down, Pete.” It was unclear what set off the latest exchange between the two coaching staffs.