Stadium could add crowd noise

According to Zack Britton, the Yankees are considering piping in crowd noise into games at Yankee Stadium, which will be without customers.

“I think it is a good idea if they are going to allow steady crowd noise to be pumped in. That would be good for the guys, obviously it gets pretty quiet,’’ Britton said Thursday night at the Stadium. “I have heard of teams, including ours, that might be exploring putting in some type of crowd noise throughout the game. I am not sure how loud it is going to be and what it would look like, but I think it is a good idea, and our team would like that and create some type of atmosphere in the Stadium.’’

Kyle Higashioka isn’t against it.

“I don’t think I would be opposed to it,” he said. “We have some light music out there while we are playing to break up the dead silence. It’s better than it was the first day, where we were just playing in an abyss, just a void of sound. I wouldn’t be opposed to crowd noise.’’

➤ According to Carlos Mendoza, the Yankees’ bench coach and infield mentor, the time Miguel Andujar spent in Tampa while the game was stopped helped his fielding.

“The footwork is a lot better and the throwing, coming from an injury, is so much better as well,’’ Mendoza said on a Zoom call before Thursday night’s intrasquad game at Yankee Stadium.

Andujar started in right field to further his development as a player who can offer versatility. He lost Giancarlo

Stanton’s first-inning fly ball in the sun/lights when he came in for it.

➤ With rain expected Friday the Yankees canceled their intrasquad game. James Paxton will throw and a few players who require treatment will be at Yankee Stadium but there won’t be a full-blown workout.

➤ Deivi Garcia is a long shot to make the Yankees’ expanded pitching staff when the regular season starts on July 23, but what he did Thursday night was certainly impressive in the intrasquad game.