The Yankees are acquiring right-handed reliever Jake Bird form the Rockies, a source confirmed to the Daily News on Thursday. The pre-trade deadline deal will send prospects Roc Riggio and Ben Shields to Colorado. Bird marks the Yankees’ second bullpen upgrade, as they previously agreed to a deal for Pirates closer David Bednar.

That could have been the soundtrack for pitchers David Bednar and Jake Bird, two relievers on last-place teams who ran into each other unexpectedly in the Denver airport early Friday morning and boarded a flight to Miami to join the Yankees, who acquired them at the trade deadline Thursday.

The Yankees added two right-handed reinforcements to the backend of their bullpen without dealing away any of their major prospects.