The New York Yankees and Kansas City Royals are playing Game 3 of their ALDS on Wednesday night at Kauffman Stadium.
Hours before the scheduled arrival of Hurricane Milton, the weather was rainy and windy on Wednesday in Tampa, home to the Steinbrenner Field, spring training headquarters for the Yankees.are playing their most important games of the season this week and their focus isn’t totally focused on beating the Royals to win their Division Series.
Aaron Judge, DJ LeMahieu, Gleyber Torres, Austin Wells and other Yankees have homes in Tampa. Owner Hal Steinbrenner is based there, too. They’re all worried about Hurricane Milton, a Category 4 storm with a 12-foot surge that was expected to crush the Tampa Bay region before midnight Wednesday and last until the wee hours of Thursday morning. “When you’re in the heat of the playoffs and everything that we’re playing for, there’s always doses of perspective that come in and do that Yankees manager Aaron Boone said before Wednesday night’s Game 3 at Kauffman Stadium. “Everyone that knows that we have a handful of guys obviously that have places down there or are based there and it’s an uncertain time.”Pitchers Marcus Stroman and Clayton Beeter and others hoping to be back on the Yankees’ active roster for the ALCS and World Series were in Tampa on Tuesday throwing at the spring training facility before heading for safer grounds by catching a flight to New York. The Yankees are using Steinbrenner Field, their spring training ballpark, as a shelter “for our employees down there and their families,” media relations VP Jason Zillo said.The center of the storm is expected to hit 60 miles south of Tampa near Sarasota, Fla. More than 6.5 Floridians in the Tampa Bay area reportedly evacuated by Wednesday. “Historic, catastrophic, life-threatening – all those words summarize the situation,” Tampa-based National Weather Service forecaster Austen Flannery told USA Today. A lot of Yankees are very concerned. They’ll try to address what’s in front of them this week in their best of five ALDS, which was tied 1-1 heading into Game 3, then keep tabs on what’s going on in Tampa.Thank you for relying on us to provide the journalism you can trust. Please consider supporting us with a subscription. If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation.and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our
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