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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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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Thursday was supposed to be about baseball, about returning to semi-normal despite a country that is nothing and a sport that has been reduced to its studs. No fans, no scouts, no handshakes? No problem. There would be at least nine innings for the Yankees-Nationals, a few hours in which …
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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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Washington National outfielder Juan Soto has tested positive for the coronavirus and will miss Thursday’s season opener against the New York Yankees, general manager Mike Rizzo said. Rizzo said Soto was asymptomatic and that no one else on the list was deemed ineligible after the contact trace. Soto needs two …
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