The Yankees defeated the Tampa Bay Rays 6-3.
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Rodriguez’s had his fourth and final at-bat at 10:28 and it ended with him grounding out to shortstop on the first pitch.
Mattingly acknowledged the Marlins might be in the market for help at first base. NY is 60-56 – matching a season-high at four games over.500 – and has won four straight for the second time since the All-Star break to remain on the periphery of the American League wild card race while Tampa Bay (46-69) continues to play out the string with five losses in its last six contests.
He did not have to specify the “screw-ups”: his suspension for being involved with performance-enhancing drugs (after denials that he ever had used them), his suit against Major League Baseball and the Yankees, and his public criticism of the team physician.
Later, A-Rod, PartyNextDoor, football star John David Washington, and National Basketball Association player Tony Allen partied at 1 Oak, where Nas sang.
Called up before the game as part of a youth movement that led to Alex Rodriguez’s release, Austin batted seventh and sliced a 2-2 fastball from Matt Andriese (6-4) to the opposite field. But they rushed for cover from the rain as the big screen in center field showed a message from Lou Piniella, who fondly recalled Rodriguez’s days as a “young pup” when Piniella managed the teenager with the Mariners. “It’s the last time I drive up Broadway through Harlem, the neighborhoods that have brought so much comfort to me”.
Starlin Castro had four RBIs for the Yankees, hitting a tiebreaking, two-run homer in the sixth off Archer (6-16) that gave CC Sabathia (7-9) his second win since mid-June.
The 26-year-old IL native pitched 6 2/3 shutout innings in the Rays’ 5-1 victory over NY on July 29, improving to 4-5 with a 4.23 ERA in 11 games (10 starts) versus the Yankees – 1-1, 1.32 this season.
“If this is the last game he plays, I wanted it to be something he never forgot”, he said.
And we shouldn’t have been surprised either when that black cloud opened up with a torrential downpour causing Rodriguez, his mother, and two daughters to literally run for cover to the Yankee dugout.
The Rays countered with only six hits, although two of them were home runs by Brad Miller.
New York’s move Saturday leaves the team responsible for $27,103,825 remaining in his $275 million, 10-year contract.
Despite this, young baseball players at New York Empire Baseball who I met earlier in the week, find inspiration in Alex Rodriguez’s talent and hard work on the field.
See everyone in Miami for the A-Rod Unretirement Press Conference in March 2017!
“I may have a couple cocktails tonight, so I may not wake up by game time tomorrow”, he said. He hasn’t said he’ll definitely retire. A 14-time All-Star and three-time AL MVP, A-Rod has 3,115 hits and his 2,086 RBIs are second to Aaron’s 2,297 since RBIs became an official statistic.
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Fielder, though, is 32, so it’s understandable why he was so distraught when doctors told him he couldn’t play anymore.
