Aaron Judge said he would be ready for opening day. He was correct. Judge started the season long behind with a couple of hits in the Yankees’ 4-1 win, shortened by the rain, Thursday over the Nationals. They were enough to impress one of his new teammates. “Those were two …
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WASHINGTON – What Hal Steinbrenner dreamed of when he threw an ocean of money at Gerrit Cole in December came true Thursday on a stormy July afternoon. Nothing about this baseball season has been normal. Spring training disappeared in mid-March due to the coronavirus, and invisible COVID-19s dance in all …
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Clarke Schmidt won’t break camp with the Yankees, but the pitching prospect made the most of his opportunities in both spring training. The 24-year-old right-hander was named the 2020 James P. Dawson Award winner, awarded to the Yankees’ top rookie in spring training. “Something highly hyped and it’s delivered in …
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There were cardboard cutouts in the stands, crowd noise dulling and crashing all five after the Yankees’ 9-3 win over the Mets on Saturday night at Citi Field, the first action for either club since the shutdown. of the pandemic. It was a preview of what baseball will look like …
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Gerrit Cole already has a Yankees record: Most of the hoops jumped to reach the striped debut. But now, barring another catastrophic event, and let’s not rule that out for sure, the $ 301.3 million man has jumped for his last hoop. Time to do something that counts. It’s finally …
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