TORONTO — Aaron Judge’s night off Friday got cut short when Yankees elder Brett Gardner found himself thrown out of his team’s game against the Blue Jays in the top of the fourth inning at Rogers Centre, with the Yankees trailing, 3-0.

Home-plate umpire Chris Segal tossed Gardner from the game in the middle of Mike Tauchman’s at-bat, moments after Segal called out Cameron Maybin on a third strike that appeared low. Gardner, upon realizing he had been ejected, stormed onto the field and had to be held back by his manager Aaron Boone. The veteran protested that he didn’t say anything to warrant such a penalty.

Television replays showed Gardner keeping his mouth shut as he banged his bat on the ceiling, the same protest tactic he used July 18 at Yankee Stadium in a game against the Rays. That went viral — someone cleverly synced up the video with the Dawn song “Knock Three Times” — on the same night that Boone’s “My guys are f—ing savages” rant became a thing.

With Gardner, who started in center field, out of the game, Tauchman — who homered immediately following Gardner’s dismissal — moved from left field to center field, Cameron Maybin shifted from right field to left field and Judge entered the game in right.