The last game of the 2016 regular season took place on October 2. All games started from 3:00 to 3:15. I was at Yankee Stadium for this game. I arrived at the stadium an hour early. I walked around, checking out the different parking garages. A half an hour before game time, I got on line. Thanks to me being a Clear member, I was the first person in the stadium. I picked up a Mark Teixeira retirement shirt and went down to right field to do a little ballhawking.  I was the only person in the stands. Brett Gardner hit a line drive off the wall. The ball was alone on the warning track. I yelled out to Yankees’ outfielder Mason Williams who was shagging balls. I yelled “Mason, you mind getting the ball for me when you have a chance?!” He walked over and tossed the ball to me. The ball was perfect white and had practice stamped on it. I was on the board without being in the stadium for five minutes. This also happened at Citi Field. Click here for more. I had two more chances to get a ball. Gardner hit a bullet off the Modell’s ad. It bounced two rows in front of me. I violently jumped over the two rows bruising my upper leg. I did not end up getting the ball. The second time, Mason Williams tossed a ball to this four year old kid next to me. The kid didn’t have a glove, so he dropped it. It hit me in the upper leg (ouch!) and landed in between my feet. I kicked it to the kid and he ended up with it. Mason Williams didn’t see that. He told Tyler Austin not to throw any balls to me. It was a good run.

It was a perfect day for batting practice. The wind was blowing out and the balls were really carrying. Brett Gardner and Ronald Torreyes were smashing the ball. Gardner hit multiple second deck shots. Then Mark Teixeira stepped in. He practiced bunting followed by real swings. He wasn’t smashing it like usual. They were little ground balls. Tex decided to take a break for a while. Gary Sanchez was next and I ran over to left field. Sanchez only took two pitches and Teixeira was next. It his last batting practice at-bat, Teixeira hit a home run into the first row of the second deck. The entire stadium was cheering for him. He tipped his cap and went back to the dugout. The game ended in a loss for the Yankees. Brian McCann hit a homer and Matt Wieters hit two from each side of the plate.

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