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Inevitably, some people will snort and squirm at the way Alex Rodriguez is capturing 2009.
And with every home run, the critics find their fallback postion sticking in their throats: “Yeah, but what’s he ever won?”
He and CC Sabathia are piloting the Yankees through this American League Championship Series, with Sabathia going eight innings, with 101 pitches, on three days’ rest in Game 4.
Considering the minimal pressure the Angels gave him, make that FOUR days’ rest.
“CC doesn’t get loose until 90 pitches,” Rodriguez said. “He was a horse, a monster, tonight.”
And Rodriguez slammed his third home run of this series and his fifth in the playoffs, off Jason Bulger in the fifth inning.
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