The Yankees do their fans a solid - MLB

As I mentioned in the recaps this morning, the Yankees were nice enough to let the people who waited out the five and a half hour rain delay
move down to the good seats once the game got going. Sure, that seems
like an obvious move and one that wouldn’t bat an eye if it happened in
any other park, but the Yankees don’t have much of a customer-friendly
track record these days, so kudos are in order. They get more kudos for this:

All fans with tickets for Thursday’s game can redeem the used or
unused ticket for a free bleachers, grandstand or terrace seat at a
non-premium game in 2009 or 2010. Fans also have the option of using
their ticket as a coupon to purchase a half-price ticket in any other
non-suite seating location for a non-premium game in 2009 or 2010.

Rain checks are common when the game doesn’t go, but most of time
you’re s.o.l. if you simply don’t want to wait around for the game.
This was a rather extraordinary delay, however, and good for the
Yankees for acknowledging it.

CINCINNATI — The Los Angeles Dodgers placed pitcher Noah Syndergaard on the 15-day injured list Thursday with a blister on the index finger of his right throwing hand.

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said the timetable for Syndergaard’s return is unknown despite the 15-day designation.

“The physical, the mental, the emotional part, as he’s talked about, has taken a toll on him,” Roberts said. “So, the ability to get him away from this. He left today to go back to Los Angeles to kind of get back to normalcy.”

Syndergaard allowed six runs and seven hits in three innings against the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday night, raising his ERA to 7.16.

Syndergaard (1-4) has surrendered at least five runs in three straight starts.

Syndergaard has been trying to return to the player he was before Tommy John surgery sidelined him for the better part of the 2020 and 2021 seasons.

Roberts said Syndergaard will need at least “a few weeks” to both heal and get away from baseball and “reset.”

“I think searching and not being comfortable with where he was at in the moment is certainly evident in performance,” Roberts said. “So hopefully this time away will provide more clarity on who he is right now as a pitcher.

“Trying to perform when you’re searching at this level is extremely difficult. I applaud him from not running from it, but it’s still very difficult. Hopefully it can be a tale of two stories, two halves when he does come back.”