BOSTON (AP) – Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz wasn’t going to sit out a late-season game against the rival New York Yankees.
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Tonight is scheduled to be Rodriguez’s final game in pinstripes, after which he’ll be released – due to assume an advisory role in 2017, covering the final year of his $275 million contract.
But the game went south in the eighth against Ziegler. “It’s not that I wouldn’t like to see it, but we’re in a part of the season where we are trying to win”.
Rodriguez has 696 career home runs – just shy of 700 and fourth on the all-time list behind Babe Ruth (714), Hank Aaron (756) and Barry Bonds (762).
Ortiz batted third Thursday and hit a ground-rule double in the first inning.
Boston Red Sox’s Eduardo Rodriguez pitches during the first inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees in Boston, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016.
Boston Red Sox’s Eduardo Rodriguez kicks the mound after giving up a solo home run to New York Yankees’ Austin Romine, left, during the third inning of a baseball game in Boston, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016.
Now the Twins have a logjam of corner position players and at designated hitter but Rodriguez’s presence could also help ticket sales on top of the leadership he could provde to younger players.
“I felt like I made a couple pretty good pitches”.
Although some could say it’s a retirement, Rodriguez never actually said his playing career was over and the former slugger still believes he can hit. “The one Ellsbury hit wasn’t even a strike”, Ziegler said. Cessa pitched two innings and got the win.
But trailing 2-1 into the eighth, the Yanks rallied against side-winding righty reliever Brad Ziegler, capped by Jacoby Ellsbury’s go-ahead, two-run double – a liner that appeared to be misjudged by rookie left fielder Andrew Benintendi. That’s a pitch a lot of times guys swing and miss or if they do hit it they hit it a little harder than that. Gary Sanchez led off with an infield single, running over Ramirez at first and briefly delaying the game as trainers checked on the first baseman. The Yankees will not release the results of the initial MRI until Eovaldi gets his second opinion. Manager John Farrell said Betts’ calf was still sore and he needed a night off.
Yankees: LHP C.C. Sabathia (6-9, 4.18 ERA) starts as the Yankees return to NY for a weekend series against Tampa Bay.
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Chris Archer will start for the Rays.
