The veteran slugger, who announced Sunday that he would move into an advisory role with the club after Friday’s series opener against the Tampa Bay Rays at Yankee Stadium, is making his 57th start as a designated hitter this season. The Boston Red Sox basically had a deal done to bring him to Beantown, but that deal fell apart and the Yankees swept in and got him.
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“Kind of a amusing hit at the end”, Rodriguez said. He was booed by Red Sox fans when he came to the plate in the second inning and had a soft lineout.
Alex Rodriguez will play his final game for the New York Yankees on Friday night and, as of now, the only thing he’s planning for Saturday morning is a hangover.
“Just like in the ’80s when Celtics-Lakers was good for (basketball), Red Sox-Yankees is also good for baseball”.
Ellsbury, the former Boston outfielder who was booed nearly as loudly as Rodriguez, was initially credited with a sacrifice fly and Benintendi charged with an error. Having seen his lights go down on Broadway, is Miami 2017 in his future?
“I’m re-signing back with the Cleveland Cavaliers, man, my hometown team, and I couldn’t be more excited with this opportunity once again, man, to defend our crown, defend our title”, James said in a posting on Uninterrupted.
Rodriguez was 0-for-4 and loudly jeered throughout the game, which turned in the Yankees’ favor on a crucial fielding mistake that allowed them to overcome a 2-1 deficit and take two out of three in the series. The Yankees were letting him go in the middle of a season after one final home game.
Dellin Betances earned his third save, striking out Dustin Pedroia and Xander Bogaerts with runners at the corners to end it.
Despite a trade-deadline selloff, the Yankees (58-56) are now just 6 1/2 games behind the American League East-leading Toronto Blue Jays and 3 1/2 games out in the AL wild-card race.
Wearing a Rodriguez jersey – that is, an Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez jersey, the catcher for the Texas Rangers, my favorite player at the time – I sat along the third base line at Coors Field in Denver, Colorado, for that season’s All-Star Game, maybe five rows from the field. “But in the long run, we’re going to be fine”.
Hanley Ramirez drove in both runs for Boston with a single in the first and an RBI double in the fifth off Michael Pineda.
Brad Ziegler (0-3) surrendered all three runs in the eighth.
“One individual is not responsible for winning only one world championship, because that’s part of the team effort”, General Manager Brian Cashman said Wednesday. It was meant to be a sendoff for Rodriguez, to give him one last shot at glory.
Rodriguez drove a 96 miles per hour fastball from Tampa Bay’s Chris Archer into the right-centre field gap, scoring Brett Gardner from first base and ending an 0-for-11 slide.
If Girardi had a sense of the moment, he would have let Rodriguez play shortstop – not third. Pedroia made a sliding stop but fired an off-target throw to Ramirez at first. Ramirez stayed in the game after being checked out.
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On Thursday, Rodriguez got his final start at Fenway Park, where he made his debut for Seattle in 1994.
