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- Updated: September 19, 2016
BOSTON — There were plenty of familiar faces around as Donovan Solano made his way through the cramped visitors’ clubhouse at Fenway Park on Sunday afternoon. More and more, the line between being a member of the Yankees and Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre has been blurred.
Solano said that he watched with excitement when teammates Gary Sanchez, Aaron Judge and Tyler Austin got called up for extended big league chances, and the 28-year-old infielder never gave up hope that his call would come. It did on Sunday, in the wake of an injury to second baseman Starlin Castro.
“I’m a man of faith,” Solano said. “I was not disappointed at all that it happened the way it happened. We won the championship down there, which I’m very grateful for that. I always had hope of coming up here.”
Solano led the International League with 163 hits this season, batting .319 with 64 runs, 33 …
