Didi staying positive amid May slump

After Didi Gregorius ripped a single in the fifth inning of Saturday’s 7-6 victory over the Athletics, he gestured toward the home dugout at Yankee Stadium, half-jokingly asking for the baseball to be preserved as a keepsake. That’s how long it had felt between hits for April’s American League Player of the Month, with that knock off Oakland’s Andrew Triggs snapping an 0-for-30 skid that represented the Yanks’ longest drought since Russell Martin’s rough patch of identical length in 2012.