In any other season, Gerrit Cole is the main story and two sidebars. What did you eat for breakfast and how did you feed the Nationals with their lunch? No detail would be too small. This is when you are the great new Yankee who makes his debut. Whether it’s …
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Season 2 of Brodie Van Wagenen’s regime as the Mets’ general manager is slated to begin with far less boastfulness than his debut. The “come find us” Van Wagenen, who anointed the Mets as the team to beat the National League East in 2019, only to see them collapse before …
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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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WASHINGTON – Everyone, both the Yankees and the Nationals, knelt … before the national anthem. The long-awaited opening night of the Major League Baseball featured a pre-game ceremony at Nationals Park that recognized a social issue that has grown in importance since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police …
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Its curve was a little too flat. Dr. Anthony Fauci, a member of the White House coronavirus task force and baseball fan, launched the first pitch at the long-awaited start to the 2020 MLB season, when the New York Yankees faced off against the National World Series champions. But Fauci, …
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