Teoscar Hernandez's Hot August + Opportunities for Yankees

In today’s newsletter…

• Leading Off: Closing out the Olympics

• AL Home Games: Yankees’ advantages against dreadful White Sox

• NL Home Games: Teoscar Hernandez is batting .481 against righties in August

• News: NFL’s new kickoff rules

The Paris Olympics closed with Team USA running away with the overall medal count and tied with China for most golds (40). The United States earned 126 medals, which is 13 more than in the Tokyo Games. The U.S. had 35 more medals than second-place China, which is 11 more than the gap from three years ago.

French swimmer Leon Marchand was not only the star of the Olympics for the host country, but his four gold medals were the most of any athlete at these Games. Simone Biles and swimmer Torri Huske led the U.S. with three golds each, while swimmer Regan Smith tied Huske for most American medals overall with five. There were 44 Team USA athletes who won multiple medals in Paris, and 13 of them won multiple golds.