Derek Jeter to participate in first Yankees Old-Timers' Day
ATLANTA – Speaking to yet another Yankee Stadium crowd showering him in adulation – this time last Sept. 9 during a ceremony to honor Derek Jeter's induction into the Hall of Fame – the iconic shortstop gave the gathering quite a teaser.
"I know you guys haven't seen a lot of me over the last few years, for various reasons,” Jeter -- who served as the Marlins' CEO and a franchise shareholder from 2017 through this past February, when he resigned from both -- told the crowd. “But I really truly do look forward to hopefully seeing a lot more of you here in the near future."
Though he said afterward during a press conference, “I wouldn’t read too much into” that comment, Jeter did say later: “Now that that [his time with the Marlins] I’m looking forward to spending more time here.”
Come Sept. 9, Jeter will be back at the Stadium, doing something there for the first time since he retired after the 2014 season: participate in Yankees Old-Timers’ Day.
The Yankees made the announcement Monday afternoon.
For the second straight year there will not be a game as part of Old-Timers’ Day so Jeter will not be taking his familiar position at short and donning his pinstriped No. 2 jersey, which has been retired.
But Jeter will be among 29 members of the 1998 World Series championship team that will be celebrated on the afternoon of Sept. 9. Some other members from that club, which went 114-48 in the regular season and then 11-2 in the postseason – its 125 total wins that season are the most in MLB history, playoffs included – scheduled to attend are Mariano Rivera, Tino Martinez, Andy Pettitte, Paul O’Neill, David Cone, David Wells, Jeff Nelson, Jorge Posada. Joe Torre, the Yankees manager from 1996-2007, also plans to attend.
Sevy a go
Their opener experiment with Luis Severino having backfired last Wednesday in Chicago against the White Sox, the struggling righthander will take the mound Tuesday night in the first inning, Aaron Boone said Monday.
Severino is 2-7 with an 8.06 ERA in 14 games (13 starts) this season, including Wednesday when he came on in the second inning and allowed four runs and five hits in two innings of what would be a 9-2 loss. Severino has had difficulty in every inning this season, his difficulties especially striking in the first where he has a 13.85 ERA. Atlanta, which has the highest-scoring offense in the big leagues, the group especially potent in the first inning. Entering Monday, Atlanta had scored 116 first-inning runs, by far the most in the majors, with the Dodgers next at 89 runs.
DJ back
DJ LeMahieu, who missed the previous four games with the right calf tightness that caused him to be a last-minute scratch from Wednesday night’s lineup, returned Monday and went 1-for-3. The utility man, who came into the night hitting .240 with a .688 OPS, has been better of late, hitting .324 with a .777 OPS in his previous nine games.
Erik Boland started in Newsday's sports department in 2002. He covered high school and college sports, then shifted to the Jets beat. He has covered the Yankees since 2009.
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