Derek Jeter is the standard for any baseball player when it comes to excellence, leadership and loyalty to a team and a city.
The eternal captain of the New York Yankees – who earned the job as the team’s shortstop in 1996 and never looked back – finished his career with 3,465 hits, 1,923 runs scored and 4,921 total bases.
Those impressive numbers got him elected to the Hall of Fame in 2020. Jeter never played a position other than shortstop in his 2,674 games in the field, reached the 200-hit plateau in eight seasons and was named the 2000 World Series Most Valuable Player.
Derek Jeter gets pissed at Adin Ross during a live stream
The Yankees legends took the stage at Fanatics Fest on Friday morning at New York city to reflect on the franchise’s illustrious history, which include 27 championships – five of them won by Jeter in 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2009 -.
The star-studded panel featured Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, C.C. Sabathia, Andy Pettitte, Jorge Posada, and filmmaker Spike Lee, with MLB Network’s A.J. Andrews as the host.
During an interaction with fans, famous American streamer Adin Ross walked up to Derek Jeter to praise him and to tell him that he considers the shortstop the greatest of all time, but the legendary New York Yankees captain did not liked the approach of the youngster and warned him to let him know in advance before putting him on a live stream.
Yankees bounce back against the Orioles
Pitcher Clarke Schmidt hurled hitless ball through seven splendid innings, backed by four solo homers as the New York Yankees trounced the Baltimore Orioles, 9-0, on a sunny Saturday afternoon at Yankee Stadium. Schmidt walked off the mound after the top of the seventh inning, pointing toward the sky as he approached the first-base line.
Gary Sánchez broke up the combined no-hit bid with a clean eighth-inning single to greet JT Brubaker, who was making his Yankees debut. Schmidt’s five-strikeout performance overshadowed a bounce-back game from shortstop Anthony Volpe, who homered in a three-hit showing.
The Yankees preached steadiness throughout their six-game losing streak, with team captain Aaron Judge saying they were “determined to win the next pitch” and general manager Brian Cashman remarking that “the storm will pass, sooner than later.”
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