Robinson Cano was at the plate with two outs in the ninth inning. The Yankee second baseman had two strikes on him as he battled Jonathan Papelbon trying to extend a tense, one-run ballgame that already had outlasted a rain delay of 2 hours 11 minutes. And then . . . NASCAR. (Full article: 651 words)

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