Alex Rodriguez
Alex Rodriguez
Alexander Emmanuel "Alex" Rodriguez, nicknamed "A-Rod", is an American professional baseball designated hitter for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball. He previously played for the Seattle Mariners and the Texas Rangers. Rodriguez was one of the sport's most highly touted prospects and is considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time. During his 20-year career, Rodriguez has amassed a .297 batting average, 696 home runs, over 2000 runs batted in, over 2000 runs scored, and over...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth27 July 1975
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
It's very important. We want to win a lot of games like that this year.
I want to get on a roll here. Each day, it's getting more comfortable.
It took me a little while to realize that Joe knows everything that's going on around here. It might not seem that way, because he's so low-key. But he knows exactly what's going on in the clubhouse and in the dugout. I've never seen a manager that plugged in.
It tells you how creative he can be.
It was good to tie it up and change the momentum.
The urgency is at an all-time high, because of all the talk about ages and contracts.
It looked to me like he had a little hop in his fastball. I was trying to slow the game down, get a good pitch, get the ball down in the strike zone and then stay inside of it--and I just got lucky.
It was inevitable. You knew in spring training when you saw these three games it was going to come down to this.
It's a great place -- the park in which I've had the most success in my career. I love that park, regardless of the last thing that happened there. I always have a short memory, which is important, because what happened yesterday is irrelevant.
We've been in postseason mode here for about a month, kind of similar to what the Red Sox were last year. I think it does help us.
We've been in postseason mode for 10 days now.
We're gonna sleep on it and see how it is in the morning, ... I've never had this before, so it's kind of a new thing for me.
We know he's got a very fine arm, and he throws 96-97 and throws all his body at you. I took some good swings, he challenged me, and you tip your cap.
We were totally out of gas trying to hold off the Red Sox. And that happened because we didn't play well at the start of the year. We came out of spring training this year knowing we need to play well right from the get-go.