New York Yankees’ Jazz Chisholm Jr., entrance proper, and teammate Jasson Domínguez (24) have a good time after a baseball sport towards the Tampa Bay Rays, Thursday, July 31, 2025, in New York. (AP Photograph/Heather Khalifa)
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The Yankees and Rays took two hours, 26 minutes to finish a sport on Thursday afternoon sport, which is hardly distinctive given the implementation of the pitch clock.
Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the ultimate assembly between the AL East foes in New York was the sport coinciding with the frenzied motion of the commerce deadline, identified for issues like hug watch and the refreshing of social media.
Lately the motion round this time is seemingly intensified with far more offers than a decade in the past and in a really perfect world for the Yankees and Rays, the brisk tempo would have ended the sport with about two and a half hours to go earlier than “pencils down” on the finish of the deadline.
Besides the sport was performed with a risk of rain that got here to fruition about an hour into it. The rain was sluggish just like the trickle of stories about who the Yankees have been getting however the rain intensified to the purpose the place the groups couldn’t proceed, leading to a two hour, 45 minute rain delay of idle gamers hanging out in clubhouses, presumably (possible) studying the identical social media as anybody else related to the game.
At 2:40 pm, the sport went right into a delay. 5 minutes later, phrase unfold on social media concerning the Yankees buying David Bednar from the Pittsburgh Pirates, making it the twentieth commerce of any variety between the groups since Brian Cashman turned the overall supervisor in 1998.
On the sixty-five minute mark of the delay, phrase unfold on social media concerning the Yankees buying one other reliever. This time it was Jake Chook from the Colorado Rockies, who have been in Baltimore final Friday when Ryan McMahon turned a Yankees.
Then on the 84-minute mark of the delay, phrase circulated about Carlos Correa going again to the Houston Astros as a part of a surreal deadline by the Minnesota Twins, who traded 10 gamers forward of the deadline.
Probably the most distinctive side of Thursday occurred about 27 minutes after the sport resumed when phrase circulated Jose Caballero was traded to the Yankees by the Rays. 9 minutes later, tv cameras noticed the proof Caballero was certainly traded by panning to the dugout and seeing him trade hugs with quite a few teammates, supervisor Kevin Money and coaches earlier than taking the quick stroll to clear his locker and transfer over the primary base facet of Yankee Stadium.
Then was the sight of Money popping out to speak to plate umpire Chad Whitson earlier than the enjoying of “God Bless America”. It was nothing like Jim Leyland beginning an argument, pausing it after which getting kicked out in 2006 whereas managing Detroit to an eventual AL pennant.
This was merely Money strolling out with a lineup card explaining how Caballero now not was within the sport as a result of he was getting traded. And this was a sport Caballero performed about two innings since he entered as a defensive substitute after first baseman Jonathan Aranda injured his left wrist in a collision with Giancarlo Stanton
Because the scene was enjoying out on TV, phrase trickled out concerning the Yankees getting one other reliever from the Nationwide League by buying Camilo Doval from the San Francisco Giants. And due to fortuitous scheduling, he was already in New York since he flew with the Giants from San Francisco and was gearing as much as contribute to a three-game sequence with the Mets, who obtained Tyler Rogers from the Giants Wednesday.
Shortly after the Yankees wrapped up a sport the place nearly nothing of be aware occurred on the sector after the delay, Cashman started his teleconference by reciting the names of the gamers acquired earlier than speaking concerning the deadline for about quarter-hour. Then Aaron Boone spoke and famous how he simply talked to Caballero earlier than heading to the rostrum.
“I simply noticed Caballero within the clubhouse, in order that was a little bit odd,” Boone stated afterward. “I noticed him truly hugging folks within the eighth.”
The scenes enjoying out after Cashman spoke included Brandon Lowe and different members of the Rays expressing gratitude they didn’t transfer whereas noting the individuality of the Caballero state of affairs.
“It’s undoubtedly bizarre, however you’ve seen it on TV a number of occasions of individuals saying goodbye in the course of the sport in these conditions,” Lowe stated. “It was a little bit bizarre to see it occur, however you simply form of put all of the items collectively and determine it out for ourselves.”
Identical to the Rays did on Monday evening when Danny Jansen was pulled from the lineup 45 minutes earlier than first pitch however stayed on the roster as a result of the Rays wanted a catcher earlier than he may get to the Milwaukee Brewers.
“A singular week,” Money stated earlier than Caballero joked concerning the commerce by saying:
“I used to be successful at the moment regardless. We received the sport I assume. That’s what I really feel proper now.”
And this was stated by Caballero hours after he awakened in a Manhattan resort room as a member of the Rays and earlier than he boarded a flight to Miami with the Yankees.
