NEW YORK — Inside the quiet visitor’s locker room at Yankee Stadium, Dustin Fowler savored his last few moments of peace by thumbing through his phone.
Even three hours before first pitch, the former Yankees and current A’s outfielder wouldn’t be afforded anymore downtime, at least on this day. A New York-sized media contingent awaited Fowler in the dugout. About a dozen family members awaited him after batting practice. A sizeable chunk of the 43,093 in attendance on Friday evening at Yankee Stadium awaited his first at-bat, greeting him with a respectable ovation to cap off a bizarre homecoming.