As the Yankees worked out on Tuesday at the Stadium, Game 1 of the Orioles-Royals wild-card series was playing on the video board.
But Aaron Boone insisted he did not have a rooting interest, even privately, for which one of them advances to the ALDS to face the Yankees beginning Saturday.
“I’m always careful what you wish for,” the manager said Tuesday before the Yankees workout. “I tell that to coaches all the time. We may be in June watching a game and you’re watching a division rival play another team and you’re pulling for another team, I’m like, ‘Hey, careful what you wish for. That team may knock us out.’ So I’m always like, ‘Let it play out, we’ll prepare as best we can for whoever comes our way.’ ”
The Royals won Game 1 at Camden Yards in a 1-0 nail-biter.
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Boone likely would not mind the two teams beating up on each other for three games and tiring each other’s pitching staffs before one of them arrives at Yankee Stadium.