It took five years, but Billy McKinney finally made his way back to The Bronx in pinstripes on Thursday. And he didn’t disappoint.
“I was a little disappointed that I never got to get a hit in Yankee Stadium as a home player. I played here as a road player,” the 28-year-old McKinney said. “Getting the home run means a lot.”
He hit his homer, on a high 94 mph fastball from White Sox starter Mike Clevinger, into the bleachers in right-center field.Billy McKinney looks up to the sky after rounding the bases after blasting a solo homer in the fifth inning of the Yankees’ Game 2 win.A first-round pick of the Athletics in 2013, McKinney came to the Yankees from the Cubs, along with Gleyber Torres and others, in the Aroldis Chapman trade in July 2016.
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