A scrimmage with the Orioles that you can’t watch unless you’re physically in Sarasota is not the most exciting thing — and after two home runs that earned them their three runs, the Yankees were totally hitless. Maybe it’s for the best that the cameras weren’t there.
The Yankee hitters struggled quite a bit against the Baltimore pitchers today. They struck out 12 times total and only recorded a trio of hits. Their runs came entirely off the bats of David Freitas and — more significantly — Josh Donaldson.
Freitas is a 33-year-old journeyman catcher who has had 102 at-bats across a variety of MLB teams since 2017, and who spent part of the 2021 season playing in Korea, then joined the Tampa Bay Rays Triple-A team.