So when A-Rod pulled into Fenway yesterday for his last series as a visiting player – as a Yankee, anyway – nobody had to tell him what to expect.
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“If he wants to play in every game, I’ll find a way”, Girardi said.
Rodriguez stayed on the bench all night. “We’re now working closely with the Red Sox to ensure the team and its fans receive a quality product”.
“I don’t know that answer right now”, Rodriguez said. He acted annoyed that reporters would ask why a guy that had 696 homers – who is supposedly having his farewell tour and is one of the most intriguing players in baseball history – would be the center of attention as the clock winds down on his Yankees career.
“It’s part of it”, manager Joe Girardi said of the crowd’s reaction. “I didn’t think I was going to be out, but he made a heck of a play and a heck of a throw”.
Alex Rodriguez’s memories of Fenway Park are as textured as the complicated story of his 22-year career.
Kimbrel walked in a run with the bases loaded in the ninth before handing off to Barnes, who struck out Mark Teixeira for his first save. The Red Sox center fielder recovered very well after the ball took a amusing hop off a ledge on the Green Monster before throwing the ball across his body while falling away from the play. Mookie Betts leads Boston with 146 hits, Xander Bogaerts has 68 RBI and Dustin Pedroia has 12 home runs.
Porcello gave up leadoff doubles to Starlin Castro in the second and Brett Gardner in the third and both would score, but he allowed only no more runs over the final five innings. He’s now 15-3 with a 3.40 ERA this season and this win was the 100th of his career.
The end result was a step in the wrong direction, a return to those disappointing starts that got Luis Severino demoted in the first place.
“I don’t think it came out bad”, said Meko Washington.
“I did talk to him about it”.
Life has thrown poor A-Rod one more knuckleball, and this one will come from Steven Wright on Thursday night. That’s really it. That’s one of those moments where I felt like I needed to say something, and I did.
A 14-time All-Star, Rodriguez is hitting.204 this season with nine home runs and 29 RBIs in 216 at-bats.
Astros 7, Twins 5: Jose Altuve had four hits following a brief absence from the lineup, and Carlos Correa homered and drove in four runs to help Houston beat Minnesota. Benintendi rounded the bases and had a few minutes in the dugout before the call was overturned on a review and ruled a double. Things fell apart in the fifth inning after Sandy Leon hit a leadoff triple and Benintendi hit was ended up being a double. Tommy Layne made his debut against David Ortiz, who hit an RBI single that was charged to Severino.
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“We value our decades-long relationship with the Red Sox organization and its decision to postpone Tuesday’s David Ortiz bobblehead giveaway”.
