The banner billboard stripped across the face of the second deck in right field of Yankee Stadium must have been teasing Mark Teixeira, whose two home runs against the Mets on Friday each landed in the same location: Section 207, directly above an advertisement for potato chips.
Teixeira said after the Yankees’ 6-1 victory that his new diet — abstaining from the junk food that used to tempt him — has been a key contributor to his hitting seven home runs already this season. The Yankees are certainly pleased to have Teixeira, a switch-hitting power source, back in the middle of their lineup, albeit with a slightly different effect from the one Teixeira was originally expected to bring.