Tempers flared in the New York Yankees' 4-2 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday afternoon.

Tensions boiled over in the fifth inning when Toronto's Alek Manoah hit Aaron Judge with a 92 mph fastball. 

"Been struggling with my sinker for about five, six starts now," Manoah explained after the game. "I made a pitch and it obviously hit Judge. I looked at him, said, 'Man, you know, I'm not trying to do that.'"

With a runner on second and first base open, Manoah's sinker hit Judge on the shoulder, the same spot in which he had barely missed earlier in the game. Visibly upset, Judge mouthed a few words to Manoah as he walked to the mound.

"[Judge] looked at me and he's like, 'That's two,'" Manoah said. "In the first inning, I did mistakenly throw one up there as well. But obviously, in a situation like that, I'm trying to minimize baserunners. So I told him, 'I'm not trying to do that.'"

Gerrit Cole came out of the dugout followed by several teammates during the exchange as Judge waved them off. The game was briefly halted but Judge went to first base. Manoah walked over to talk to Judge and appeared to help defuse the situation.

Manoah said he explained to Judge that it was trouble with his command, but there was no love lost for Cole's fuming reaction.

"I think [Judge] understood that. And I think if Gerrit wants to do something, he can walk past the Audi sign next time," Manoah said, referring to the luxury car brand logo sprayed on the grass by the visiting team dugout at Yankee Stadium.

When asked whether it had anything to do with it being Manoah specifically, and whether he believed he intended to hit Judge intentionally, Cole remained vague in his postgame comments.

"Not necessarily," he said. "Just a little one too many [batters hit by pitch] for my taste. I don't know what to say."