Cody Bellinger’s strong throw home helps Yankees take down Blue Jays

After Aaron Judge made a short, 67.9-mph cutoff throw instead of going home on a two-run single from Nathan Lukes in the Yankees’ loss to the Blue Jays on Friday, the right fielder and Aaron Boone made several attempts to spin what happened.

“The last couple of weeks — if you guys have been paying attention — we worked on different creative cuts and things like that,” Boone said Saturday morning after sharing some similarly puzzling and dismissive answers the night before . “We’ll continue to do that, and hopefully continue to evolve it as we go.”

But with Judge, clearly compromised by a right flexor strain, DH’ing and Cody Bellinger playing right on Saturday, there was no need for a “creative cut” on another Lukes single in the sixth inning. Instead, Bellinger charged the ball, fielde