With the Red Sox leading in the ninth, a “We want A-Rod!” chant briefly broke out among sellout crowd.
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Alex Rodriguez play on Friday last game of his career in Major League Baseball with the New York Yankees, and then become a special adviser and instructor within the team.
Raul Mondesi knew he couldn’t make the play, so the Royals second baseman flipped it to someone who could. I’m not saying he won’t play these next two days and that he won’t be in there. “I think there’s a better balance of life after what I went through”.
Left-hander Eduardo Rodriguez (2-5) will start for Boston on Thursday because Wright jammed his right shoulder while diving into a base as pinch runner against the Los Angeles Dodgers last weekend.
I don’t know, I mean how am I supposed to react?
But while big-time professional athletes often tell whoppers when dealing with the media, I absolutely believe A-Rod when he says this: “I love Boston”.
Coming into Tuesday’s game against the Red Sox, I actually thought that the Yankees, and Rodriguez, had handled the situation very professionally. “So it’s between me and him”. Maybe, just maybe, I would believe Girardi if the Yankees had not just traded four of their best players.
Today’s links look at David Price’s continued lackluster run, Koji Uehara’s road back, and all things on Alex Rodriguez’s last series at Fenway.
Girardi then answered about 12 minutes of questions why A-Rod wasn’t starting the first two games of the series.
“I came to the stadium really excited, hoping I would play all three games or maybe two out of three”. He’s earned the right to have the conversation with me and (say what) he wants to do here …
But I have yet to meet a teammate who disparaged his work ethic, his desire to win, his willingness to help or his love for playing baseball.
He would go 0-for-3 in an eventual 4-3 loss at the hands of the Red Sox that day, but it would mark the first step in a long Major League Baseball career that has seen its fair share of ups and downs, both on the field and off it. The 27-year-old southpaw continues to search for his first win in a Red Sox uniform.
“I’m an emotional guy and my heart can get tugged at”, Giradi said.
Rick Porcello’s career year continued on Tuesday with a dominant performance against the New York Yankees.
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It would have been the decent thing to do, if only to allow a phenomenally talented player an abbreviated victory lap, or, more likely at Fenway, one more run through the gauntlet.
