Toronto Manager John Gibbons said he considered it “the most meaningful series” the Blue Jays have played at Yankee Stadium in 20 years. But the atmosphere in the visitors’ clubhouse before Friday’s game hardly attested to that proclamation.
Scattered about were a soccer ball, a rugby ball, an electric scooter, and what is known as an intelligent personal mobility device, or basically a handle-less Segway, which the reliever Liam Hendricks used to zoom around the room, gliding nowhere in a hurry.
R. A. Dickey, the starting pitcher, sat quietly reading a book. And when David Price, the team’s new ace, got up and started walking toward the dugout, a gang of about two dozen members of the news media trailed him, eager to hear his thoughts on his new team.