He was 5-for-16 with a homer during the 1997 American League Division Series with the Mariners, then 2-for-16 as a Yankee in the 2012 ALDS.
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He will be cut Saturday by a Yankees team pivoting to youth. “I disappointed a lot of people, but this feels good”, he said.
A-Rod drove a 96 miles per hour fastball from Chris Archer into the right-center field gap in the first inning, ending an 0-for-11 slide.
You know you’re getting old when Major League Baseball players, who are younger than you, are being forced out of the game. He did not earn at-bats toward the end of his Yankee tenure and his season stat line is pretty ugly -.200 average, .247 on-base percentage, .351 slugging percentage and nine homers and 31 RBI in 225 at-bats. But Rodriguez has played just one inning at third base this season, and how he would respond to playing in the field is uncertain. He then brought him out after one out as the sold-out Yankee Stadium crowd stood and cheered.
“The best part for me is that I don’t have to face him with bad news every day, ” Girardi said Sunday.
He told a news conference: “With all that I’ve been through, and for them to show up on a night like tonight and show me that type love is something that I’ll never forget”.
Alex Rodriguez owns the news-producing flair of a head of state or Taylor Swift, so it’s no surprise that he’s back in headlines because someone else is talking about him. Rodriguez’s family was on the field and public address announcer Paul Olden said: “Alex, you spent 12 of your 22 seasons with the Yankees” when a loud thunderclap shook the ballpark, as if cued by a film director. (Noticing a theme here?) It was one of Rodriguez’s four career grand slams against the Orioles. I never thought I could play for 22 years. “That’s something I will be able to share with my daughters for a long time”.
Royals 7, Twins 3: Yordano Ventura won consecutive starts for the first time in two months, and Kendrys Morales homered in his return from a one-game suspension for Kansas City. In the eight years before he came to NY, the Yankees won four World Series and six pennants.
Rodriguez has a $20 million salary this year and is owed $20 million more in 2017, the final year of a $275-million, 10-year contract that was the baseball’s largest when he signed it. “He’s an available player, so he’ll be on that list, and we’ll see where it goes”. The O’s carried a 3-1 lead into the top of the ninth, but with two outs and two aboard, Rodriguez tagged Orioles closer Koji Uehara for a crushing three-run homer to lead the Yankees to victory.
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He has not said he is retiring. His friendship with Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria has fueled speculation that the Marlins could be a landing spot for Rodriguez, who is four home runs away from reaching 700 for his career. Earlier this week in Boston, as A-Rod watched the offensive exploits of 23-year-old teammate Gary Sanchez, a realization dawned. “And I was happy about it”.
