Alex Rodriguez started the week sitting on
2,995 career hits. He ended it with 3,003. In between, the 39-year-old
designated hitter became the third player to enter the 3,000-hit club
with a home run, joining Wade Boggs and Derek Jeter with an
opposite-field blast off Justin Verlander in the first inning of
Friday's series opener with the Tigers. Both Boggs and Jeter
accomplished the feat in Yankees uniforms, and Rodriguez joined them as
the only Yankees to reach the 3,000-hit plateau.
The inevitable milestone was controversial for Rodriguez, who was
suspended for the entire 2014 season for using performance-enhancing
drugs. The Yankees, who have openly balked at paying the bonuses in
A-Rod's contract attached to his climb up the career home run list,
publicized and celebrated Rodriguez's 3000th hit. Despite everything the
Yankees and Rodriguez went through last season, the slugger has been
invaluable to the team's success this season, as he leads the club in
batting average (.282) and on-base percentage (.384), ranks second in
home runs (14) and third in RBIs (43). No matter your feelings on A-Rod,
his importance to the Yankees 38-31 record is indisputable.
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Monday, June 22, 2015
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