What’s the best way to make a lengthy rain delay not make the game feel like a depressing drag? Make the game exciting early and easy to shut off and go to bed before the 27th out is recorded.

In the opener of a brief, two-game set at their spring home of George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, the Yankees did not get to hit until 9:30pm ET in a game that bled into August 20th. When the rain subsided and they did pick up their bats, they smashed the Rays’ pitching into submission, as six different Yankees went deep, including multi-homer nights by Cody Bellinger, Giancarlo Stanton, and José Caballero in his first appearance against his former team since the trade.

Remember that exhilarating nine-homer game against the Brewers on March 29th in the height of the torpedo bat drama? The Yanke

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