The Cooperstown Brewing Company has produced Sandman Pilsner — a special edition brew for Mariano Rivera on the occasion of the former Yankees closer's Hall of Fame induction. (We found it on Main Street at the Cooperstown Beverage Exchange.)
The soon-to-be-home of Mariano Rivera's Hall of Fame plaque — signed by the first-ever unanimous selection himself.
Saturday was a scorcher across the major leagues, with many teams forgoing batting practice and ballparks deploying misters in an attempt to keep fans cool.
The Yankees are as hot as the weather, torching Colorado pitching for the second straight day.
Luke Voit left the Yankees' game on Saturday after being hit in the face by a 91 mph fastball in the fourth inning, but he stayed in the game long enough to score.
"If I have to express myself with one word, what I can say from being a son of a captain of a fishing boat, to Cooperstown, only a ‘miracle,'" said Mariano Rivera in our Fri. interview, of his journey from Panama to the Hall of Fame. The game's greatest closer and first unanimous Hall electee said he's most proud of "what my parents did for me, how they raised me, and how I played the game of baseball. How I respect the game of baseball. How I give my best to the game of baseball."
Mariano Rivera said in our Cooperstown interview Fri. that he always felt comfortable with the pressure of being a closer. "When I was 6, 7 years old, I was doing that — not in that way, not in that platform, but in my own platform. It was huge in Panama for me, we were playing for 50 cents so we can win and go to the store and buy a Pepsi Cola and buy two pieces of cake and eat it with the boys. That was our prize. So I was accustomed to be in that position." Whether it was baseball or another sport, the new HoF inductee said he wanted to be the guy on the spot at the crucial last moment.
It's media session time for the 2019 Hall of Fame class in Cooperstown.
Mike Mussina said in our Cooperstown interview Fri. that when he got word in January of his election to the Hall of Fame, his initial thought was "they're giving me a courtesy call to say, ‘hey, listen, you missed by five votes'...they're just being nice to me because I was close." He said he "wasn't sitting at home with people videoing it, with the phone on the coffee table waiting for it to ring, it was nothing at all like that - I was completely surprised." Mussina was coaching a high school basketball practice when the call came and his celebration dinner with his son was "going to McDonald's and grabbing some burgers and nuggets and drinks (from the drive-through)."
Just $600 for a signed Mariano Rivera bat, one guaranteed never to break since there is no way you're ever going to play baseball with it.
As the Yankees face the Rockies this afternoon, Luke Voit moves up in the lineup a tad. Also a day off for Gary Sánchez: 3B LeMahieu RF Judge CF Hicks DH Encarnación 1B Voit SS Gregorius 2B Torres C Romine LF Gardner SP Tanaka
Players who traded in their Colorado purple for pinstripes have the Bombers soaring atop the AL East. Now they're taking down their former team.
Edwin Encarnacion hit a go-ahead, grand slam, a trio of ex-Rockies beat up on their former team and the New York Yankees defeated Colorado 8-2 Friday night.
For those wondering, during his dugout-punishing yesterday, Brett Gardner did indeed leave a mark — or two.
Yankees manager Aaron Boone has been suspended for one game and fined an undisclosed amount a day after being ejected for a profanity-laced tirade directed at plate umpire Brennan Miller.
DJ LeMahieu will be leading off as he faces his old team for the first time tonight. Mike Tauchman, also a former Rockie, will be getting the start in left: 2B LeMahieu RF Judge C Sánchez DH Encarnación CF Hicks 1B Voit SS Torres 3B Urshela LF Tauchman SP Happ
Aaron Boone will not be in the Yankees' dugout tonight after Joe Torre and MLB announced that he would be suspended for a game for "inappropriate actions, including contact" during his profane tirade in Game 1 of Thursday's doubleheader vs. Tampa Bay.
