{"id":247440,"date":"2021-05-12T07:53:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T04:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/yankees-overcome-sobering-covid-19-reminder-stressful\/"},"modified":"2021-05-12T07:53:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T04:53:26","slug":"yankees-overcome-sobering-covid-19-reminder-stressful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/yankees-overcome-sobering-covid-19-reminder-stressful\/","title":{"rendered":"#Yankees overcome sobering COVID-19 reminder: ‘Stressful’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Yankees overcome sobering COVID-19 reminder: ‘Stressful’<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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There is usually but one bottom line on a game<\/a> day: win or lose. So for the Yankees \u2014 maybe the bottom-line-est of all bottom-line operations \u2014 there was that. They won the game, 3-1. The foe was the Rays, and the Yankees have had a harder time figuring out the Rays lately than most of us trying to solve trigonometry.<\/p>\n

There was that, too.<\/p>\n

But then there was \u2026 well, that other thing.<\/p>\n

That COVID thing.<\/p>\n

And so once more it feels like the cops have arrived to bust up our keg party. We\u2019ve been feeling good about this. Vaccination numbers are encouragingly up. Positive results are slowly on the decline.<\/p>\n

Gum companies are making 2\u2009\u00bd-minute commercials now that absolutely destroy the internet, everyone is so happ<\/a>y thinking about frolicking outdoors and kissing the nearest stranger, hugging the nearest tree, as they do in that Wrigley\u2019s Extra ad.<\/p>\n

And then this news<\/a> item hits late on a Tuesday afternoon: Phil Nevin, the Yanks\u2019 third base coach, fully vaccinated, tests positive for COVID-19<\/a>. Later, after the Yankees\u2019 knocked off their nemesis, it is announced that first base coach Reggie Willits and a staff member also tested positive for COVID. And both of them were fully vaccinated, too.<\/p>\n

Sobering news. And sobering words from Yankees ace Gerrit Cole:<\/p>\n

\"Aaron
Aaron Boone (center), who was not among the Yankees\u2019 staffers to test positive for COVID-19, watches batting practice on Tuesday.<\/figcaption>
AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think this is going to be over for a few years. I think we\u2019ve going to have to be dealing with this kind of thing for a while. And every time these things come up, we\u2019re going to have to adapt and learn, just as a species.\u201d<\/p>\n

OK. Now for the deep breath. We have known, and we have learned, that vaccines are not 100 percent, not for the coronavirus, not for any virus. No vaccine is bulletproof. There is a name for what happened to Nevin, Willets and the staffer: \u201cbreakthrough.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s simple math, simple probability. It happens. It was going to happen to a baseball team. It happened to the Yankees. It\u2019ll happen to someone else. Maybe we didn\u2019t need the reminder that the virus is still with us. We certainly didn\u2019t want <\/em>the reminder.<\/p>\n

It reminds us anyway. It\u2019s a stubborn SOB.<\/p>\n

\u201cStressful,\u201d is how Aaron Judge described it, a few hours after Judge sent the Yankees off to the races by hammering a long first-inning home run the first time he swung the bat. \u201cYou\u2019ll have days like this where things just pop up. You have to forget it and move on. You still have a game to play.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Yankees chose to play this game willingly, without the prodding of MLB, taking a team vote and deciding to take the field. They recently reached the 85 percent threshold mandated by MLB to loosen the protocols, so a couple of coaches testing positive didn\u2019t mean shutting things down.<\/p>\n

Still.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a long 24-36 hours,\u201d Aaron Boone said, and that was even before you factored in what a relentless challenge the Rays have been for the Yankees the past two years. Again: Once the players chose to play, there was only the bottom line to consider. The Yankees have wriggled free of their April miseries<\/a>. They have crawled slowly up the standings. They are within striking range of the surprising Red Sox.<\/p>\n

Now they had to figure out the Rays on the fly. With a shadow loitering in their clubhouse. With the news arriving, after game\u2019s end, of two more positive cases. After enjoying the most satisfying kind of breakthrough on the turf at Tropicana Field, they received a full helping of the word\u2019s sudden dual meaning.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat it means for our team, for our season, is taking care of guys the best we can,\u201d Boone said.<\/p>\n

Boone said the Yankees will prepare as if they are going to play Wednesday. There is still the chance of more positives among the coaches. It is a situation that will draw a good many eyeballs. As close as we feel to being on the other side of this there always seem to be reminders. And it always seems able to find a mark.<\/p>\n

It found a couple of Yankees coaches in St. Petersburg. It found the most electric name in the sport, San Diego\u2019s Fernando Tatis Jr., (and a pair of his teammates) in Denver. Stubborn SOB.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis tests everyone\u2019s mental strength,\u201d said Jordan Montgomery, the lefty who picked up the win by stifling the Rays on a run and two hits across six innings. \u201cWe got the job done. I\u2019m proud of everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

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