Baseball was back in the Big Apple—and all over the country yesterday—as spring training games began in the second month of summer.
Regardless, it was a welcome sight to all of the real fans at home watching all the cardboard fans in the stands as some of their favorite players got the ball rolling on the 2020 season.
And there is no better video than this to underscore how we got here and where we are going as Yankees outfielder Clint Frazier does something we haven’t seen in a year—drilling an upper deck shot—while doing something that we see everyday.
Wearing a mask.
Welcome to the MLB of C-O-V-I-D.
The three run shot was part of a five run ninth for the Yankees which may have meant nothing in the real life as players were prepping in their first game back to the majors—but it meant everything to the gamblers that took the over on the run total in this game.
No season restarts are getting cancelled.
As surely COVID deaths keep dwindling—and they do.
Source: ESPN
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