Woo boy.A-Rod, baseball's biggest narcissist, and one of the game's most talented and successful players, had gone a career high 72 at bats without a home run. Reviled by many - fans, players and teammates alike, and called any number of nasty sobriquets like A-Fraud and A-Roid, he shut them all up last night, or was it this morning?
As reported in The New York Times, "For the first time ever, the Yankees and the Red Sox were scoreless after 14 innings. Then with two outs in the bottom of the 15th, Rodriguez ripped a two-run homer into the left field bullpen to give the Yankees a 2-0 victory in five hours 33 minutes."
After losing the first eight games of the season's 18-game series with the Roid Sox, A-Rod hit a two-run walk-off home run in the bottom of the 15th inning after 1 am in the morning, the Yankees' second win in a row during the four-game home stand.
With a 67-42 record and MLB-best .615 winning percentage, the Yanks are now 4 1/2 games up on the Red Sox. Next game today at 4:05 with 11-7 CC Sabathia on the mound.
Sweet.
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