Gio Urshela got his introduction to the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry not necessarily by choice, but by virtue of growing up as a baseball fan in Colombia.
“That’s the only games that they put on the TV in Colombia,” he said Thursday. “I always watched this.”
Now they’re all watching him.
Urshela got his initial firsthand taste of the rivalry in April, when he was still something of a stopgap at third base. But when the series begins Friday night in The Bronx, he will take the field as one of the big reasons why the Yankees are the ones being chased atop the AL East.