Josh Donaldson’s True Yankee Moment: Opening Day walk-off RBI downs Red Sox

James Kratch • 04/08/2022

Josh Donaldson has earned his pinstripes.

.@BringerOfRain20 earns his pinstripes! #Walkoff pic.twitter.com/oTXnNGT8Og

— MLB (@MLB) April 8, 2022

Is this the first True Yankee Moment on Opening Day since Hideki Matsui’s grand slam in 2003? I think it is.

Pa. pic.twitter.com/w5cONH4Wym

— Jimmy Traina (@JimmyTraina) April 8, 2022

Yankees: 1st extra-inning walk-off win on Opening Day since April 14, 1908 vs A's

— Katie Sharp (@ktsharp) April 8, 2022

James Kratch

James Kratch is a veteran sports reporter and editor. He currently reports on the youth sports industry for Buying Sandlot and was previously ESNY's managing editor. Before that he spent a decade at NJ Advance Media (The Star-Ledger and NJ.com), where he covered high school sports, the Giants and Rutgers.