Jorge Posada bounced a single into right with one gone in the top of the first. Mariano Rivera was next, and he stepped into the righty box to face Andy Pettitte out there on the mound, everyone dressed again in their pinstriped clothes.

Pettitte’s 53-year-old left arm that authored 256 regular-season wins came around and Rivera took a big cut. The 55-year-old Hall of Fame closer ripped a single into left on this sun-splashed Saturday.

This was only going to be seen in an Old-Timers’ Game at Yankee Stadium.

No one had seen one here since 2019. There was no Yankees Old-Timers’ Day for two years due to the pandemic. Then came the day without the game for three years.

The former players were out there now, though, throwing slower, moving slower, playing only an inning and a half, but out

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