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[Bussin' With The Boys @BussinWTB]

Me walking into work tomorrow knowing it’s October 1st

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

Ben Rice grew up in Cohasset, Massachusetts, twenty miles from Fenway Park, and he was a New York Yankees fan.

Not quietly. He wore the gear to school.

"I mean, you definitely stick out a little bit when you're wearing your Yankees gear around, maybe on my first-grade picture day."

Here is a little kid's entire reasoning, in his own words.

"I liked the team that won the most, and I liked Derek Jeter."

He wore an old school Yankees jacket to games at Fenway. His classmates were Red Sox fans. His whole town was.

And on one of those trips to Fenway with his father, he walked over to the Pesky Pole, the right field foul pole Boston fans treat as a shrine, and wrote two words on it.

Yankees Rule.

He has said he was probably one of the only people ever to write something pro Yankees on that thing.

Now here is what happened to that kid.

He went to Dartmouth. Then COVID cancelled the entire 2020 college season, which for a player trying to get drafted is the worst possible thing at the worst possible time.

So he made his own.

That summer he played in the Futures League, hit .350 with 11 home runs and was named MVP. Then he got his college friends together and organized workouts at a complex in Northborough. His buddies started calling it the Ben Rice League, because that is what it was. A kid ran his own league so scouts would have somewhere to find him.

The next spring he played in an amateur league around Massachusetts where scouts stood in parking lots to watch. He got a few games in at Cotuit on the Cape.

Two Yankees scouts, Matt Hyde and Damon Oppenheimer, found him in the middle of all that.

New York took him in the 12th round in 2021. Not the first. The twelfth.

He reached the big leagues in 2024. And that July, as a rookie, he hit three home runs in one game.

No rookie in the history of the New York Yankees had ever done that. Not Lou Gehrig. Not Joe DiMaggio. Not Mickey Mantle.

It was against the Boston Red Sox.

"I can't believe it was against the Red Sox," he said that night.

This season he hit 41 home runs, the most on the team.

And tonight, Game 1 of the Wild Card Series, Boston again.

Ben Rice went 4 for 5. A double. An RBI single in the seventh. A home run. Then, with two outs in the eighth, a grand slam.

Six runs batted in.

No player in the history of the New York Yankees had ever had six RBI and four hits in one postseason game. Not Babe Ruth. Not Gehrig. Not Mantle. Not Jeter. Not Judge.

New York Yankees 9, Boston Red Sox 0. The Yankees lead the series 1-0.

Now the honest part. The slam came with the game already gone, off a bullpen with nothing left.

But the kid who wrote Yankees Rule on the Pesky Pole went in the 12th round, invented a league to get seen, and has now broken two Yankees records against the Boston Red Sox.

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[Jake @JakeRepNY]

Cam Schlittler to the Red Sox

[New York Yankees @Yankees]

Yep 🍚

[4 Train Savages @FourSavages]

Tonight, we go to battle.

[Talkin' Yanks @TalkinYanks]

Cam Schlittler finishes his regular season with a 1.95 ERA

[NFL @NFL]

Stiff arm. Juke. Rookie Emmitt Johnson pulling out all the moves on this catch-and-run 😤

DENvsKC on ESPN
Stream on @NFLPlus

[Nebraska Huskers @Huskers]

POV: Jumping into the Sea of Red w/ the U.S. Air Force Wings of Blue 🌊🔴✈️

[Eli Rodriguez @efrodriguez23]

The University of Nebraska Marching Band will be wearing Gold and Black ribbons tonight.

In some instances, the rivalry doesn’t matter. This is certainly one of them.

Rest in Peace, Derek Phillips.

[Tony Roundtree @Tonywithyy]

I wonder which guy played in the NFL and which guy went to journalism school

[Nebraska Huskers @Huskers]

To honor and remember those that lost their lives 25 years ago on this day.

[Nebraska Softball @HuskerSoftball]

Today we remember a friend, a teammate and a Husker.

Your jersey shines over Bowlin Stadium every day, Julie. ❤️

[Hail Varsity @HailVarsity]

Most attended games at Wrigley Field:

1. Cubs vs. Dodgers, 1947 (Jackie Robinson’s first game in Chicago): 46,572

2. Nebraska volleyball vs. Missouri, 2026: 43,067

[Nebraska Huskers @Huskers]

Shout it from the rooftops:

🗣️ NO AWAY GAMES

[Lincoln Arneal @Lincoln_VB]

They are changing the score after every point on the hand-operated scoreboard tonight at Wrigley.

[Hunter Mitchell @HMitchell14]

I’ve covered a lot of media events in my life. I think I can confidently say that there is not a fan base of any sport that travels the way Nebraska volleyball fans do. Which sounds absurd given that I’ve covered Kentucky games in basketball and football so much. But seriously.

[NFL Memes @NFLMemes]

They threw extra time back on the clock for Michigan like it was still the World Cup

[Big Ten Volleyball @B1GVolleyball]

First look at the court at Wrigley Field 🤩

Watch No. 3 Kentucky vs. No. 13 Penn State at 7 p.m. ET and Missouri vs. No. 1 Nebraska at 9 p.m. ET tomorrow on FOX 📺