MLB playoffs 2018: Red Sox's Alex Cora reacts to Yankees' Aaron Judge's trolling

Yankees star Aaron Judge blasted Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” in the bowls of Fenway Park on Saturday night.

BOSTON — Plausible deniability.

That was what Red Sox manager Alex Cora used when asked about Yankees star Aaron Judge‘s hardcore troll move.

Cora spoke at a press conference at Yankee Stadium on Sunday

Judge blasted Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York,” from a boombox while leaving the visitors’ clubhouse at Fenway Park following the Yankees’ 6-2 win over Boston in Game 2 of the American League Division Series on Saturday night.

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The classic song blares from Yankee Stadium speakers after every game.

What did Cora think about it?

Not much. Or so he said.

“I heard about it,” Cora said when asked if he had seen the video that had circulated on social media.

.@TheJudge44 blasted a certain song as he left Fenway Park tonight. [?] #StartSpreadingTheNews pic.twitter.com/Ams3wQBW6n
— MLB (@MLB) October 7, 2018

Cora said he wasn’t sure if Judge was digging at his team.

“I don’t know,” he said. “You’ve got to ask him if it was something for us, but I doubt it. He’s a guy that, when he hits the ball out of the ballpark, he sits down and runs. That’s probably just something they do when they win. Probably they did it somewhere else too.”

Judge homered in each of the first two games of the series.

On Saturday, he crushed a first-inning solo blast to give the Yankees a 1-0 lead. On Friday, he ripped a solo shot of closer Craig Kimbrel to bring the Yankees within one run of their eventual loss.

Judge said he couldn’t wait to get back home after Saturday’s game.

“We know our fans are waiting for us to come back home,” Judge said, “especially with this series tied, 1-1, like that and we’ve got two games like that, it’s going to be huge. So we’ve got to keep going back out there and playing our game and see what happens.”

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