The day before he was scheduled to make his first career start in the Bronx, Royals rookie Brad Keller and a few of his teammates rode the early bus, dropped their belongings in the visiting clubhouse and climbed to the upper deck of Yankee Stadium on Thursday afternoon.
They do this most places. In Toronto in April, when the Rogers Centre had a hole punctured in its roof by a wayward shard of ice, they arrived early and made the trek up to the catwalk. They gazed out over Fenway Park in May, a view Keller said New York did not beat.