NEW YORK — If the bitter chilly weren’t sufficient, preparation for the Yankees’ residence opener additionally featured a uncommon earthquake Friday morning.
Yankees second baseman Gleyber Torres was taking batting observe from bench coach Brad Ausmus on the sector when the earthquake rattled the area for greater than 30 seconds. The Blue Jays weren’t on the sector but. The gamers within the guests clubhouse did not react to the shaking.
It was a special story on the opposite aspect.
Aaron Choose mentioned that rumbles are normally felt at Yankee Stadium earlier than video games however that he rapidly realized the shaking Friday was completely different. Choose declined to share the place he was when it occurred.
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“I do not wish to say,” Choose mentioned with fun. “I do not wish to say.”
Marcus Stroman, the Yankees’ beginning pitcher Friday, was at his locker.
“It was simply a kind of issues that was extra stunning,” mentioned Stroman, who went on to throw six scoreless innings within the Yankees’ 3-0 loss. “We had been simply type of asking round like, ‘What was that?’ We thought it was possibly any person pushing one thing up on the concourse. Nobody actually knew.”
Yankees proper fielder Juan Soto, hours from making his long-awaited residence debut in pinstripes, mentioned he did not discover the uncommon occasion “in any respect.”
“I used to be getting a therapeutic massage,” Soto mentioned, “so I used to be actually relaxed.”
Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone was on the sector speaking to former Yankees catcher and present broadcaster John Flaherty behind the cage throughout the earthquake. Boone, who skilled numerous tremors rising up in Southern California, mentioned he did not assume the vibration on his ft was the results of an earthquake.
“I believed it was the sound system,” Boone mentioned.
The earthquake reached a magnitude of 4.8, in response to the U.S. Geological Survey, and reportedly could possibly be felt from Boston to Baltimore. The epicenter was detected about 45 miles west of New York Metropolis in Tewksbury, New Jersey.
“I heard it was Tewksbury, New Jersey,” Boone mentioned, “and John Flaherty and I had been speaking about Bob Tewksbury. Cannot make it up.”