PhotoIt is a Yankee Stadium tradition for fans in the right-field bleachers — the so-called Bleacher Creatures — to greet the Yankees’ starters when they take the field in the first inning. This guerrilla welcome mat set the stage for the rest of Monday night’s game as the Dodgers made themselves at home in a rare appearance at Yankee Stadium, thrashing the Yankees, 8-2. It made for a satisfying evening for the Dodgers fans, who at least for this night poked a hole in the stereotype of Los Angeles fans by arriving early and staying late. “That energy picked us up.” The Dodgers’ fans travel well, he added, but “being a former Red Sox player — it’s not like this.”This is the 20th season of interleague play, but it is not every day that the Dodgers play at Yankee Stadium. In fact, since the Dodgers won the 1981 World Series at the old Yankee Stadium, they had played only one day of baseball in the Bronx — a doubleheader the teams split three years ago.

Source: New York Times September 13, 2016 03:15 UTC