Earlier within the week, it was the Yankees’ Aaron Judge and Anthony Rizzo taking within the U.S. Open with their wives, and Saturday night, outfielder Juan Soto and utilityman Oswaldo Cabrera watched Daniil Medvedev defeat Flavio Cobolli at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Soto posed for a photograph with Cobolli on the court before the match — which Medvedev won 6-3, 6-4, 6-3 — began, too, and the pair were pictured in a set once it began.
Soto, taking in perhaps his only U.S. Open as a Yankee along with his free agency sweepstakes set to start following the 2024 season, donned a Dad Gang hat and a No. 22 chain, while Cabrera wore a white shirt.
The pair traveled to Queens after the Yankees fell to the Cardinals, 6-5, earlier on Saturday in The Bronx, with Cabrera getting called out on a costly pitch-clock violation within the ninth inning.
He took a ball to make the count full, but after stepping out of the box, readjusting his batting gloves and taking a practice swing, home plate umpire Ben May determined that Cabrera — making just his second-career start at third base that day — hadn’t returned to the batter’s box and grow to be engaged with Cardinals closer Ryan Helsley before the eight-second mark on the pitch clock.
“I assumed that I used to be in time,” Cabrera said postgame, “and I don’t know if I used to be or not, but at the identical time, it’s my fault. So I actually have to recuperate in that situation because [those are] the foundations.”
He finished the sport 0-for-4 with two strikeouts, while Soto went 1-for-5 with two strikeouts — and he gave the Yankees some life within the ninth inning by sending a double down the right-field line with two outs.
The Yankees and Cardinals will finish their three-game series Sunday, while motion will proceed within the Round of 16 in Flushing — with an all-American showdown of No. 3 Coco Gauff, the defending champion, and No. 13 Emma Navarro serving as considered one of the marquee matches for the day.
No. 12-seed Taylor Fritz and No. 20-seed Frances Tiafoe, two of the highest American players remaining, may have a likelihood to succeed in the quarterfinals in the lads’s draw with victories, too.
