Yankees returning to second residence as street group in collection vs. Rays

Following the Yankees’ 4-3 win over the Royals within the collection finale, the Yankees hopped on a flight again to their second residence.

Solely it gained’t be their second residence and it’ll not look because it was left behind to begin the 2025 season.

The Rays presently occupy George M. Steinbrenner Area in Tampa, Fla., since their residence stadium in Saint Petersburg, Tropicana Area, was severely broken by Hurricane Milton in October.

The Yankees will return to Tampa for the primary time this season for a four-game collection in opposition to their division rival and Aaron Boone mentioned he has felt pleasure from his group to see the brand new environment.

“I feel we’re excited to get off the airplane in the course of the evening tonight into some heat air. That’ll be enjoyable,” Boone mentioned earlier than Wednesday’s win. “It’ll be attention-grabbing going again. I’m curious, I’ve seen it on TV and it seems like a superb setting and all the things. So, trying ahead to getting again there. Sadly, we’ve obtained to go on the guests aspect however I’m certain it is going to be just a little bit completely different, just a little distinctive. However I feel one thing we’re trying ahead to just a little bit.”

The ballpark has since undergone a makeover. The “Yankees” lettering on the excessive wall alongside the primary bottom line has been changed.

The clubhouse sports activities a light-weight blue and yellow mixture of colours with a “House of the Rays” signal, and the highest circle brand above the scoreboard within the outfield has taken on a “TB.”

Early season statistics present George M. Steinbrenner Area is extra of a hitter’s park.

On the similar dimensions as Yankee Stadium, it’s presently the eleventh most offensive favorable stadium at six p.c extra favorable than others, in response to Baseball Savant’s park issue metric.

Because the season strikes alongside and the climate turns hotter in Florida, the numbers may improve.

On Tuesday, Boone mentioned he believes the ballpark remains to be being found out by each group when requested if he had heard what it’s like within the main leagues.

“Anytime you’re at a brand new ballpark, you attempt to make sense,” he mentioned. “Oh, is the ball going to fly out? Is it not? What’s actual? What’s not? I feel persons are in all probability nonetheless attempting to make these formulations. You see a lot of residence runs hit in a day, you assume, ‘Oh it’s going to be.’ … Nicely, we’ll see. I imply, that could possibly be the case, however we’ll see.”