Earlier within the week, it was the Yankees’ Aaron Decide and Anthony Rizzo taking within the U.S. Open with their wives, and Saturday night time, outfielder Juan Soto and utilityman Oswaldo Cabrera watched Daniil Medvedev defeat Flavio Cobolli at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Soto posed for a photograph with Cobolli on the courtroom earlier than the match — which Medvedev received 6-3, 6-4, 6-3 — started, too, and the pair have been pictured in a set as soon as it started.
Soto, taking in maybe his solely U.S. Open as a Yankee together with his free company sweepstakes set to start following the 2024 season, donned a Dad Gang hat and a No. 22 chain, whereas Cabrera wore a white shirt.
The pair traveled to Queens after the Yankees fell to the Cardinals, 6-5, earlier on Saturday in The Bronx, with Cabrera getting known as out on a expensive pitch-clock violation within the ninth inning.
He took a ball to make the rely full, however after stepping out of the field, readjusting his batting gloves and taking a apply swing, house plate umpire Ben Might decided that Cabrera — making simply his second-career begin at third base that day — hadn’t returned to the batter’s field and grow to be engaged with Cardinals nearer Ryan Helsley earlier than the eight-second mark on the pitch clock.
“I assumed that I used to be in time,” Cabrera stated postgame, “and I don’t know if I used to be or not, however on the identical time, it’s my fault. So I’ve to get higher in that state of affairs as a result of [those are] the principles.”
He completed the sport 0-for-4 with two strikeouts, whereas Soto went 1-for-5 with two strikeouts — and he gave the Yankees some life within the ninth inning by sending a double down the right-field line with two outs.
The Yankees and Cardinals will end their three-game sequence Sunday, whereas motion will proceed within the Spherical of 16 in Flushing — with an all-American showdown of No. 3 Coco Gauff, the defending champion, and No. 13 Emma Navarro serving as one of many marquee matches for the day.
No. 12-seed Taylor Fritz and No. 20-seed Frances Tiafoe, two of the highest American gamers remaining, may have an opportunity to succeed in the quarterfinals within the males’s draw with victories, too.
