Useful Kitchen Products 2024-07-03 Useful Kitchen Products - Last update images today Useful Kitchen Products Miranda's 5 Hits Lead Twins To Rain-shortened 12-3 Win Over Tigers NEW YORK -- Graham Ashcraft and the Cincinnati Reds won a stare-down with the New York Yankees even before finishing their three-game sweep. When the national anthem ended ahead of Thursday's game, Ashcraft and fellow Reds pitcher Carson Spiers remained in front of the visitors dugout on the third-base side of Yankee Stadium while New York pitchers Ian Hamilton and Cody Poteet held out on the first-base side. Their showdown extended for more than five minutes as players ignored gestures from the umpires instructing them to vacate the field so the game could begin. Ashcraft won the battle, pumping a fist and getting high-fives and cheers from teammates when he outlasted his Yankees counterparts before the Reds' 8-4 win Thursday. "That also set the tone," said Spencer Steer, whose three-run homer in the fifth inning gave Cincinnati a 5-0 lead. Steer praised Ashcraft, using the pitcher's given first name, Douglas. "That was pretty awesome of Doug just to kind of win that one for us and kind of give us a little edge before the first pitch," Steer said. All four players ignored plate umpire Alan Porter, who made a shooing motion with both hands. Porter then dispatched third-base umpire Jim Wolf to urge them off the field. "Lucas Sims didn't have a hat out there, so he took my hat, didn't want to be standing there without a hat on the Fourth of July," Spiers said, referring to another Reds pitcher. "So me being a rookie, I was standing there without a hat, whatever, looking dumb. And then, as the thing was ending, Sims was like: 'Spiers, you got to stay here until the last one.' So I was like, all right, whatever. I'll stay. Sure enough, their guys stayed, too. So I was like, 'Oh god, here I go. Like, I'm in for it a long time.' And I saw Graham kind of slide over with me, and from there it was the long haul." They had a brief reprieve when Porter returned to the umpires clubhouse to retrieve a shin guard. Being a rookie making the $740,000 minimum, Spiers decided to peel off first. "Thinking about the fine and knowing that I couldn't afford it," he said. "So I just made a business decision." New York's pitchers, both on the injured list, finally walked off after manager Aaron Boone gestured for them to leave. "A little competition within the game, I guess," Poteet said. "That's probably the first one I've ever been a part of but it took all the way to the very last bit where it's getting close to the game starting." Ashcraft, in his third major league season, has a slightly higher salary at $750,000. He started and got the win in Tuesday's series opener and wasn't going to pitch in Thursday's game. "We saw they weren't moving and one of the guys told Carson to stay, and I was like, 'I'm staying with you because I'm not moving,'" Ashcraft said. "'I ain't got nothing to do today. I'm staying until I win or I get ejected or both.'" Kitchen 780x470 66dc4627701c75afb8ba82ef696db75c Maxresdefault Ten Kitchen Accessories You Need.webp Maxresdefault Maxresdefault Maxresdefault 492A4466 814bNOiLBmL 41911dabf89bf77746f853e09da244e7fc Kitchen .rsquare.w400 Kitchen Items1 Maxresdefault 1543 02659 Mc 0002 Text Left New Year Blender 2023 81HpfWzaNXL D5d572e7c461808566cf9d3d4e501f36 1b8e8c4b6a5fcfcedfed728abc15e03f Best Kitchen Gadgets Scaled 8 Useful Kitchen Products Brevillejuicer Newyear 2023 51zaXoZEbBL 3f740f62 Db76 4bd5 Bab5 Bb940f6dd71d 43ac453b7cd1d2244a40e392e2e84bf7 1686650405 Utensil Set 7 B2af3ee4a8ac95d23797e1c241d1bc2d 1672323589 Kitchen Cooking Utensils Knife Set Maxresdefault 76432196.cms FH18DJF 583 00 027 700x700 Sub Buzz 16235 1546528531 1 492A4428 Edit Sub Buzz 10844 1520965420 1 ?crop=1043 934;345,274 Must Have Kitchen Gadets