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Tigers' Willi Castro allaying worries with the glove while swinging mean bat

Special to The Detroit News

Tampa, Fla. — In olden days, before something called COVID slammed planet Earth, a Yankees game at George M. Steinbrenner Field would have been a brash affair, complete with a loud crowd and bellowing beer vendors.

Friday’s scene instead was as low-key as the game the Yankees and Tigers played. It finished in a 1-1 tie. Attendance was a pandemic-pinched 2,352.

And the Tigers weren’t complaining.

They got enough satisfying pitching, beginning with starter Matthew Boyd, to hold a celebrity Yankees lineup to six hits.