Yasiel Puig flashed the middle finger on both his hands toward several fans close to the field who were talking to him both before and after his second-inning home run at Cleveland's Progressive Field on Tuesday night.

"I reacted that way," Puig said through an interpreter. "I stooped to their level."

Puig's home run gave the Dodgers a 2-0 lead in an eventual 7-5 victory. Asked if he regretted it, Puig said it happened suddenly.

"It's something that came out," he said. "There's really nothing I can do at this point."