Before the Yankees and Red Sox squared off in London, each team gave Prince Harry and Meghan Markle a gift. They liked the Yankees' better.


There's a New York Yankee in Queen Elizabeth's court.
The Yankees and their archrival Boston Red Sox are playing in Major League Baseball's first ever game on European on soil on Saturday. The ancient enemies will play a two game set in London in the inaguaral London Series at London Stadium, the 2012 Olympics Venue and current home stadium for the West Ham United soccer team.
Both teams got royal visits before the game, as well — Megan Markle and Prince Harry visited the teams in their locker rooms before they took the field. And while there's still a lot of baseball to be played, the Yankees, who lead the Red Sox by nine games in the American League East, earned some bragging rights before play even started. The Yankees gifted the Duke and Duchess of Sussex a personalized jersey for their young son, Archie, and the prince was not shy about acknowledging that it was superior to Boston's gift.
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At the time of publication, the Yankees had already jumped out to a 6-0 first inning lead.
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Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.
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