NEW YORK — Major League Baseball is investigating manager Alex Cora and the Red Sox after Cora insinuated that the club threw at Yankees’ Aaron Judge in Saturday’s contest, a league source confirmed Monday. The investigation was described as standard practice and no decision was made as of Monday afternoon.

Aaron Judge hit his major league-leading 53rd homer, and the New York Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 5-2 to open a three-game AL East lead over second-place Baltimore.

In the sixth inning of Saturday's game, Red Sox starter Brayan Bello faced Aaron Judge and threw the first pitch behind his knees, missing the Yankees slugger. On Sunday, Cora appeared to admit that this was when the Red Sox were trying to even the score by hitting Judge on purpose.