It\u2019s Sunday once again, and you know what that means \u2014 it\u2019s time for our weekly social media roundup! This past week has been a rollercoaster of emotions on the field, as the Yankees hit a week\u2019s worth of home runs against the Tampa Bay Rays before succumbing to 2025\u2019s alarming trend of forgetting how to play baseball against division rivals against the Boston Red Sox. Woven into these ups and downs, though, are a number of fun and exciting off-the-field stories \u2014 and one on-the-field squirrel. With so much to go over, without further ado, let\u2019s get started!<\/p>\n
Oswaldo\u2019s Adventures<\/p>\n
Ever since Oswaldo Cabrera injured his ankle back in May, the Yankees\u2019 season has felt incomplete, like something important was missing \u2014 that something being, of course, the energy that Cabrera brings to the game day in and day out which made him an instant fan favorite upon his call-up in 2022. Well, although he certainly won\u2019t see the field again until 2026, Cabrera has been making appearances around the Yankees world ever since his ankle has healed enough to allow him.<\/p>\n
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At the beginning of the week, he hung around Yankee Stadium as the New York City Football Club played a game in the Bronx, donning an Oswaldo Cabrera NYCFC jersey.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, he visited Somerset, where he threw out the ceremonial first pitch. Side note \u2014 I love how the Somerset Patriots refuse to give him a position, and simply prefer to label him as \u201cfan favorite.\u201d<\/p>\n
And finally, he helped advertise tomorrow\u2019s Hamilton Night at Yankee Stadium by performing as Peggy Schuyler for the Yankees\u2019 social media account \u2014 an unexpected crossover, but a welcome one.<\/p>\n
Weaver\u2019s Birthday<\/p>\n
As part of Players\u2019 Weekend last week, Luke Weaver named \u201cthe first glass of salt water to get your day started\u201d as his favorite small moment of his day. Well, to celebrate his birthday on Thursday, the Yankees\u2019 social media team greeted him at the Stadium with\u2026 a glass of salt water. A little cheap for a team valued at eleventy gazillion dollars, but I guess it\u2019s the thought that counts.<\/p>\n
A Squirrely Mound Visit<\/p>\n
In the midst of Friday night\u2019s disappointing 1-0 loss to the Boston Red Sox, a new member of the Yankees\u2019 coaching staff decided to visit the mound for a mid-inning chat: a squirrel!<\/p>\n
British Invasion of Cooperstown<\/p>\n
Former Yankees reliever Zack Britton visited the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown this week as a Players\u2019 Association Ambassador. While, perhaps unsurprisingly, Britton prioritizes his Orioles career in these photos, he does spotlight his time with the Bombers \u2014 and in particular makes sure to highlight his old Yankees teammate, CC Sabathia.<\/p>\n
A Glimpse Behind Rice\u2019s Curtain<\/p>\n
Yankees catcher\/first baseman\/human golden retriever Ben Rice doesn\u2019t share much on his social media accounts. Fortunately, his girlfriend posts a bit more \u2014 and quite a few of her pictures include Rice, or were clearly taken at a Yankees game.<\/p>\n
The History of Seat Cushions<\/p>\n
Dave Sims and Suzyn Waldman give us a bit of a behind-the-scenes look at the cushions at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Florida.<\/p>\n
Ryan and Joe, Together at Last<\/p>\n
Ryan Ruocco and Joe Girardi worked as partners in the broadcast booth for the first time.<\/p>\n
The Yankees Reference Spongebob<\/p>\n
After the Yankees hit 14 home runs in the two-game set against the Tampa Bay Rays, the Yankees dove into the Nickelodeon archives to reference the Spongebob episode \u201cDying for Pie\u201d from 2000. You know, back when Spongebob was actually good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Sunday once again, and you know what that means \u2014 it\u2019s time for our weekly social media…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,731,48,1333,29833,107,4,1690,62,2548,2547,1364,3380,68,142,42625],"class_list":{"0":"post-269996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-ben-rice","10":"tag-boston-red-sox","11":"tag-cc-sabathia","12":"tag-fan-favorite","13":"tag-luke-weaver","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-yankees","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkyankees","19":"tag-oswaldo-cabrera","20":"tag-social-media","21":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","22":"tag-yankees","23":"tag-zack-britton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115086003123330714","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}