September 05, 2007
Tying Home Run
Alex Rodriguez homers in the bottom of the seventh off Washburn to tie the Yankees-Mariners game at two. He also ties Mel Ott on the all-time list with 511 career home runs. He's about to move up the ranks fast, as his next long ball ties him with Eddie Mathews and Ernie Banks for 17th on the all-time list. He also keeps pace with Barry Bonds, who hit number 762 this evening.
Update: The Yankees load the bases with one out, bringing up Posada as a pinch-hitter. He walks to force in the go-ahead run as the Yankees take a 3-2 lead in the bottom of the seventh.
Update: A-Rod hits two home runs in one inning as he starts and ends the scoring, hitting a two-run shot as the Yankees score eight in the seventh. They've added one in the eighth to make the score 10-2. In one night, Alex ties three greats, Ott, Mathews and Banks. He also ties his Yankees record for most home runs by a right-handed batter, 48.
Correction: Mathews, not Williams. Ted is the next person to tie at 521.
With 22 games left can he hit fourteen more and set a new AL record? It would be quite a finish to his season.
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A-Rod does it again. Two homers in one inning.
If nothing else, I hope this game feeds the fire about terrible (indeed perhaps corrupt) umpiring. This has been one of the most horribly umpired games I have ever seen, no hyperbole. And not just in terms of balls and strikes, but in terms of the entire crew. Truly one of the most wretched performances of the season.
So now A-Rod is only 8 RBI's short of a career high, 9 HR's short of a career high, and 14 runs short of a career high in that category too. Oh yeah, and he's only 20 walks short of a career high, but that might be just barely out of his reach. He's cut down on his K's a lot from his usual (averaging 129 per season) with only 98 so far. Batting .312 now, he's having his fifth best average in his career (unless he goes into a slump for 3 weeks). If he ain't MVP...
Missed the game Jeff, anything standout besides the phantom tag?
It's less egergious than the blown call that went against the Yankees earlier in the year.
Listened to the Seattle radio broadcast, and it was funny when the announcers talked about how p.o.ed Ichiro got. They couldn't believe it themselves.
Anyway, the umpiring obviously didn't determine the outcome of a 10-2 game. The blunt fact is that Seattle couldn't hold down the Yankees' offense forever. Which is no crime. New York has the best offense in baseball, by a mile.
Rick Rizzs intoned early in the fatal seventh that Seattle's season "hangs in the balance." Yep, it did, and it's over.
Allright, anything can happen. But the Mariners are in deepest doo-doo.