In what has change into an annual custom every time the Yankees play at residence on Sept. 11, supervisor Aaron Boone was joined by a number of gamers — this time, pitchers Gerrit Cole and Carlos Rodón — in putting a wreath on the monument commemorating the 2001 terrorist assaults in Monument Park.
“Actually significant,” Boone mentioned earlier than Thursday's 9-3 win over the Tigers on the Stadium. “I've gotten to try this now a couple of instances after we've been right here. So to get to stroll on the market with Gerrit and Carlos and simply actually, I imply, soak up an incredible monument, and actually see the Pentagon, and see the Twin Towers and the police canines and the firemen all sort of honored on there. You understand, it hits residence.”
With the win, the Yankees stay three video games again of Blue Jays within the AL East after Toronto's 6-0 win over the Astros.
The Yankees and Mets will face one another on Sept. 11 subsequent season within the Bronx for the twenty fifth anniversary of the assaults.
In addition they met on the twentieth anniversary in 2021 at Citi Subject.
“I believe you simply get up and it's completely different while you get up at this time,” Boone mentioned. “A pair years in the past, we had the sport over at Citi Subject the place it's Mets and Yankees, and there was a bigness and a meaningfulness to that and figuring out what number of private tales there are to the people who will likely be within the constructing tonight, the people who had been within the constructing that night time at Citi Subject.
“To really feel that sort of uncooked emotion within the constructing that you just simply go searching and also you see individuals's, in some instances, tears of their eyes, that sort of buzz, however silence, too. You are feeling that. And I felt that a lot of instances on this chair on at the present time.”
The Yankees wore caps Thursday night time representing New York's first responder businesses, and FDNY firefighter Regina Wilson sang the nationwide anthem.
The Savannah Bananas will play video games on the Stadium on Saturday and Sunday whereas the Yanks are in Boston.
“Oh yeah, I went in Tampa two springs in the past once they had been there, it was at [George M. Steinbrenner Field], so I watched it, and it was cool,” Boone mentioned. “I imply, it's superb; the next and the venues that they're promoting out. I loved it, perhaps to not the extent of some, but it surely's undoubtedly at the very least fascinating.”
Luis Gil is slated to start out the opener Friday of a three-game collection in opposition to the Purple Sox at Fenway Park, adopted by Max Fried and Will Warren the subsequent two days.
