TORONTO — With a tiny glint in his eye, Yankees Manager Aaron Boone smiled at the thought of a crab dinner in Baltimore on Sunday night. It would be a just reward for a well-executed victory, but it would not have been possible if ESPN hadn’t relented and abandoned its plans to broadcast the game in the evening.
At the Yankees insistence, Sunday’s game, once scheduled for 8 p.m., was switched to a 1 p.m. start by the sports network — much more palatable amid the Yankees’ travel plans. Everything that followed in the game itself went in the visitors’ favor, too.