Yankees’ threat of sitting Aaron Judge finally ended long rain delay with Red Sox

ESPN pressured MLB officials to wait out a rain delay between the Yankees and Red Sox at Yankee Stadium. The network wanted to air Aaron Judge getting at least one more at-bat in his chase of 61 home runs. Yankees manager Aaron Boone was worried about the safety of his players. He threatened to take Judge out of the game. Eventually, the delay was shortened to 1 hour, 38 minutes and the team won 2-0. MLB disputes the suggestion. It says the league followed its usual processes.

Yankees’ threat of sitting Aaron Judge finally ended long rain delay with Red Sox. The teams had been told mid-delay that there was a chance they could try to restart the game around 12:30 a.m. Neither team wanted to see any players hurt. Yankees wanted the delay because they had to get on a plane to start a series with the Blue Jays on Monday. Reds wanted a game to end because the team had a flight to Boston with Orioles coming to town on Sunday.