NEW YORK -- Neil Walker shared an interesting insight to a crowd of media Wednesday night after coming off the bench in the ninth inning of a tie game, seeing one pitch from Chicago White Sox reliever Dylan Covey and sending 40,000 Yankees fans home happy by putting a mistake in the seats for a 5-4 victory.
Thinking back to a day earlier, Walker said, "I was playing right field and looking around and the only other guy that was there on Opening Day was (Aaron) Hicks. And so that's the just the nature of baseball.