PHILADELPHIA -- Every Yankees player in the dugout stood at the rail in the eighth inning of Monday night's 4-2 interleague win over the Phillies when reliever Dellin Betances stepped into the batter's box for his first big-league at-bat.
Most were rooting hard with giant smiles watching this 6-foot-8 giant wiggle his bat forward just like Gary Sheffield used to do when he hit 509 homers slugging for the Yankees and a bunch of other clubs from 1988-2009.
The Yankees fans at sold-out Citizens Bank Park, and it sounded like there were about 20,000 of them, were into it, too.