Aaron Judge says he was trying to identify which of his teammates was yelling at umpire Clint Vondrak when he peeked into the New York Yankees' dugout before hitting a 462-foot home run against the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday night.

"There was kind of a lot of chirping from our dugout, which I really didn't like in the situation," Judge said.

Toronto's broadcasters noticed Judge peeking into his own dugout before his homer and speculated he was looking for some kind of signal.

"It's kind of odd that a hitter would be looking in that direction," manager John Schneider said.

New York led 6-0 at the time, and three pitches earlier, Vondrak had ejected manager Aaron Boone for arguing a low strike call to Judge. Boone came out of the dugout to vent at Vondrak and crew chief James Hoye.

"I feel like after the manager does his thing, it's like, 'Fellas, our pitcher has still got to go out there and make some pitches. We've got the lead, let's just go to work here,'" Judge said. "I said a couple of things to some guys in the dugout and especially after the game. Hopefully it won't happen again."