The Yankees celebrated a sixth-inning home run barrage with some mock dugout interviews
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Any Major Leaguer who has played in New York will tell you: If you want to survive in the Big Apple, you have to be able to deal with the media. And no outlet is more relentless, more hard-hitting, more in-your-face than ... the Yankees dugout, apparently.
In the sixth inning of New York's 6-1 win over the Rays, Starlin Castro launched a solo homer to left. After rounding the bases, he was greeted in the dugout not by high-fives but by a camera and microphone. Well, kind of:
That's Ronald Torreyes acting as cinematographer while Didi Gregorius plays the role of roving reporter and Luis Severino ... well, we're not quite sure what Severino is doing.
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But the Yankees' new investigative reporting team wasn't done. The very next batter, Greg Bird, also went yard -- providing Gregorius with another chance to show off his homemade cup-mic:
And yet, somehow, the dingers weren't done. Aaron Hicks added a two-run shot later in the inning, and by that point -- in grand dugout interview tradition -- things started to get rowdy:
Alas, that was the last of New York's homers on the night, leaving us all to wonder just what it was that Gregorius asked his teammates. He was probably wondering whether a hot dog is or is not a sandwich.