BOSTON -- In 2009, with his hip and reputation damaged, Alex Rodriguez nevertheless delivered a few clarion calls that he was up to something special. He homered on the very first pitch he saw after coming back from hip surgery in early May and -- needin...
After missing the first two games of the Oakland series with a sprained thumb, Alex Rodriguez was back in the Yankees lineup yesterday. And even if his return was overshadowed by the record-breaking grand-slam barrage, his multi-hit game was an auspiciou...
‘Flight Time” and “Big Easy” were checking out the Yankees batting practice before last night’s game against the A’s at the Stadium when the two members of the famed Harlem Globetrotters decided to see how difficult it might be to balance a spinning bask...
Alex Rodriguez said yesterday he will meet with Major League Baseball on Friday in Baltimore about his high stakes poker-playing habits. The Yankees open a five-game series with the Orioles that day. Rodriguez said he would speak to reporters about the m...
MINNEAPOLIS — Alex Rodriguez is not going to win the American League’s most valuable player award this year. But he’s won three of them already, and could easily have won three more. He knows what an MVP season looks like, what it feels like, up close, b...
Considering where he stands now, it's hard to believe that on June 1, Nick Swisher had three home runs.After enduring a colossal slump in the season's first two months, Swisher has had a fantastic summer for New York. Monday, he hit his 21st home run, a ...
Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez returned to New York on Monday to have an MRI on his left thumb, and the result ''came out good,'' according to manager Joe Girardi. Rodriguez sat out Sunday night's game against the Baltimore Orioles after playing i...
A team of four Major League Baseball investigators entered a Baltimore hotel Friday to meet with Alex Rodriguez over allegations that the Yankee slugger participated in underground poker games. There's no shortage of controversy in A-Rod's career. ...
Take your pick as to which party was more relieved by Carlos Beltran’s decisive home run against the Padres on Wednesday night — the Giants, who needed the 2-1 win to stay close to the Diamondbacks, or Beltran himself, who’d been feeling pressure to resc...
Just weeks after he wound up in MLB's crosshairs for allegedly going to underground poker games, Alex Rodriguez was spotted last Monday in a high-stakes gaming room at the Mohegan Sun casino in the Poconos, the New York Post reported Monday. The then-in...
By The Associated Press Published: 2:00 AM - 08/30/11 BALTIMORE — Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez returned to New York on Monday to have an MRI on his left thumb, and the result "came out good," according to manager Joe Girardi. Rodriguez sat out Su...
Curtis Granderson slides home safely to score on a double by Mark Teixeira during the first inning against the Orioles on Monday night in Baltimore. The Yankees went on to win the game and earn a split of the four-game series after dropping the first two...
Yanks grab lead vs. Beckett, but Boston then goes deep By The Associated Press Published: 2:00 AM - 09/01/11 BOSTON — New York's bats finally came to life against Josh Beckett. Phil Hughes was looking fairly sharp, then suddenly a moth flies into one of ...
Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez is expected to sit out this week's entire series at Boston because of his sprained left thumb. just to sit on the sideline watching," he said before the opener of the three-game series with the Red Sox. "I don't want ...
Alex Rodriguez is not in the lineup for the Yankees tonight because of a sprained left thumb. Manager Joe Girardi said Rodriguez had received a cortisone shot, leaving his status for the remainder of the series in question. "Would I be surprised if he di...