TAMPA – The Yankees will see AJ Hench in a major league dugout on Monday for the first time since a sign-stealing scandal that aided Houston’s World Series winning team in 2017.
The controversy gave Hitch his job – and caused the Yankees to wonder if Astro didn’t cheat, as the Yankees lost to Houston in seven matches at the ALCS that season.
Aaron Boone, a friend of Hinch’s, said the two have spoken since the news of the littering broke, most recently “for the past several weeks.”
George M. on Sunday. Steinbrenner went 6-4 in a seven-in-defeat at Toronto at the field, “Boone said,” leading it. ‘He said,’ Our focus is to hopefully go out and play in the championship season. I am not ready to look back a few years ago. “
Whether his players have been able to get ahead of this is another story.
Asked if he planned to say anything about Hinch – who was banned by the MLB for all of last season before being hired by the Tigers – Aaron Judge cleverly dodged the question .
“I took the day off [Monday], So I don’t think I’ll be on the field with the COVID protocol, “the judge said. “So I think I’m missing that.”
Hinch managed his first game with the Tigers on Sunday, winning 10–2 over St. Louis and later dealing with the issue.
“I’ll just address it directly, like I have,” Hinch said of the narrative. “It is a part of my past and I am protecting the tigers from it. It has nothing to do with the Detroit Tigers. I understand that it is personal with me, but I will handle it. I highlighted my name to make the journey. We are all going there and I am not going to do anything different to answer these questions or address it and apologize and move forward. “
Hinch has said that he regrets his actions with Houston after he destroyed a monitor used to deceive the team, but did not directly try to see that a video What pitches are being thrown to prevent teams using the system.
“Of course, I’m not going to tell people how to believe or what to believe,” Hinch said. “But I’m sorry that it was part of the game and the wrong things that we did, and then focusing on the Tigers.”
He said he would address the questions “by focusing on my job”.
Yankee fans did not allow Hinch to forget about what happened, as they proved on Sunday, when some appeared to Toronto’s Lourdes Gurrill, Jr., to his brother, Yuli, for that Astro team I misunderstood him for playing.
There will be no case of mistaken identity on Monday.
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