NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 23: Former Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera, who will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame this year, gets a hug from Old Timer David Cone during Old Timer's Day festivities before an MLB baseball game between the New York Yankees and Houston Astros on June 23, 2019 at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx borough of New York City. (Photo by Paul Bereswill/Getty Images)
The New York Yankees and Kansas City Royals technically played a baseball game on Monday night in KC, but anyone who watched the whole thing would likely classify it as some kind of scripted spectacle.