Last Sunday, Alex Rodriguez held a press conference with the New York Yankees stating he’ll play his final game with the Yankees on August 12 and that New York has offered him a role as a special adviser. The New York Yankees have announced they will hold a news conference with Alex Rodriguez before the game against Cleveland on Sunday, Aug. 7, 2016.
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Rodriguez was pleased to have the RBI to remember rather than going 0 for 4 in his final game of the AL East rivalry.
Orioles right-hander Chris Tillman (14-4, 3.50) tries to end his longest winless streak so far this season – a whopping three games – against Oakland.
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). He outdueled Yankees starter Michael Pineda, who allowed two runs on eight hits in six innings. Last time out, he struck out nine over six innings of two-run ball in a 10-2 win over the White Sox.
Alex Rodriguez’s goodbye kiss to Fenway Park came in Thursday night’s eighth inning, his last at-bat in his next-to-last game as a Yankee.
“I’ve been so focused on this week [that] I don’t even have time or energy to think about anything else”, said A-Rod, who restated that he still feels he can play.
“Not how I pictured it when I woke up this morning”, A-Rod said with a big smile about his first RBI in almost a month.
That was the insurance run in the Yankees’ 4-2 win against the Red Sox, before 38,161 fans whose farewell song to A-Rod was a constant chorus of booing during his 0-for-4. “I should have caught it”, Benintendi said.
Rodriguez also revealed Thursday that he had asked Girardi earlier in the week if he could play third base in Friday’s Stadium swan song, but Girardi refused the request. “And the proposal is, ‘If I do one of three of the following, you get my bat.’ He was all excited”.
Honestly, I haven’t thought about it. Derek reached out, he congratulated me, but my inbox is completely full. With the bases still loaded, Boston catcher Sandy Leon fielded A-Rod’s short hit and threw to first as Brett Gardner scored.
It was the 20th multi-homer game for Ramirez.
“I felt like I made a couple pretty good pitches”. Hale said he’s had an MRI, but that the team has not received the results.
LaGreca said that Jeter issued a congratulatory statement about Ichiro Suzuki after his 3,000th hit, so would A-Rod expect a similar gesture after his final at-bat as a Yankee?
The Red Sox had a scare Wednesday when both David Ortiz and Mookie Betts exited their game against the New York Yankees with injuries.
“I approached him in the first inning, and I gave him a little proposal”, Rodriguez, 41, said.
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With first base open, Chase Headley was intentionally walked and A-Rod strolled up to one last venomous reception from Fenway fans who cast the controversial slugger as a villain since 2004, his first season in the game’s most inspired rivalry. Ivan Nova (8-6, 4.83) makes his second start with Pittsburgh since being acquired from the Yankees.
