“Whatever they do, I’m at peace”, Rodriguez said before Tuesday’s game against the New York Mets. New York Yankees catcher Brian McCann, left, look…
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NEW YORK (AP) – Mark Teixeira hit a tiebreaking, three-run drive off Steven Matz in the second inning for his first home run against a left-hander in more than a year, then got hit by a pitch that sparked a bench-clearing dustup in the New York Yankees’ 9-5 win over the Mets in the Subway Series on Wednesday night.
The Yankees plan to leave Alex Rodriguez with reduced playing time as they turn their attention to rebuilding.
For weeks, rumors have been swirling that the Yankees could release Alex Rodriguez.
“We’ve been looking for opportunities to get him into games”, Girardi said Tuesday afternoon. It’s been a tough year for me, but I have a history of coming back. Barring an unlikely playoff series, the O’s make their second-to-last trip to NY this season.
Since starting the year with a. 158 batting average through the first three months of the season, De Aza has a.343/.477/.486 batting line in 44 plate appearances across 22 games since July 2.
“Knowing the type of guy Neil is, I highly doubt that he’s trashed it”, Niese said. Rob Refsnyder singled with one out in the first, Teixeira walked, and Chase Headley hit a double that Conforto bobbled near the leftfield wall.
With Yoenis Cespedes slowed by a quadriceps injury, Collins said the Cuban slugger will be a designated hitter from Wednesday through Sunday, when the Mets play in AL ballparks at the Yankees and Detroit.
“The problem is that once I take a couple days off I feel better, but once I go full speed is when the pain returns”, Cespedes said through a translator. Matz settled down, allowing six runs and six hits in six innings.
Castro beat out an RBI infield hit, ending a 5-minute at-bat, and Robles was taken out by Mets manager Terry Collins.
NOTES: The Mets made a flurry of roster moves, adding RF Jay Bruce and LHP Jonathon Niese, each of whom they acquired Monday, to the active roster and recalling LHP Josh Edgin and IF Ty Kelly from Triple-A Las Vegas.
“In maybe the near future, do I see him getting a ton of at-bats?” manager Joe Girardi said at Citi Field before the Yankees’ 7-1 loss to the Mets. Luis Severino (1-6) was brilliant in relief of starter Chad Green, allowing only a hit, a walk and an unearned run and striking out five in 4 1⁄3 innings. “No bad intentions there”.
Travis d’Arnaud led off the fifth with a homer before the Mets blew the game open in the seventh, when deGrom had one of his team’s six hits against Tanaka and Richard Bleier.
Rodriguez has slashed a woeful.204/.252/.356 this season with nine homers and 29 RBIs and has 65 strikeouts through 62 games this season. But he may not get there with the Yankees, who want to test youth after giving up hope on the present by dealing Aroldis Chapman, Andrew Miller, Carlos Beltran and Ivan Nova for 10 prospects, pitcher Adam Warren and two players to be named.
But that’s how things go when the Mets play the Yankees, when baseball becomes as much theater as sport.
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Earlier in the day, owner Hal Steinbrenner had dodged a direct question about whether the Yankees were about to cut ties with Rodriguez, meaning he was about to eat approximately $27 million in guaranteed money, which is a lot of shredded cabbage for any owner to stomach.
