New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez tied Ken Griffey Jr. for fifth place on Major League Baseball's all-time home run list, belting his 630th leading off the third inning of Friday's home opener against the Los Angeles Angels.Rodriguez hit a first-pitch, 92-mph, four-seam fastball from Ervin Santana over the wall in dead center for his first homer this season. It was his 285th home run as a Yankee.A-Rod needs 30 homers to tie Willie Mays for fourth place on the all-time list (660).Prior to Friday's game, Rodriguez, who was hitting just .174 coming in, was moved from the cleanup spot to the No. 3 hole in the batting order. Second baseman Robinson Cano was moved to fourth."If you think that's a story, wait until I take over (Derek) Jeter's spot. That'll be a real story," Rodriguez joked before the game. Source: ESPN
Funny how his numbers declined after being caught doing steroids. Don't think the homeruns should really count in the records.
Yeah, I saw the blurb on my cell phone's news feed about A-Hole Rodriguez and truth be told, does anyone really care about Rodriguez anymore after all he's been caught doing? I don't care if he hits 10,000 homeruns his stats honestly mean jack crap to this sports fan. Not to mention I freaking HATE the Yankees!!!! As far as I'm concerned all these PED using heckers stats should roll back to ZERO when they're caught using...meh.
he was caught. his home runs should not count. Heard back in the day that steroids didn't help that much. Guess they was wrong. Don't see many people hitting 50+ home runs as before.
Oh it'll be quite a while. Thome (sort of) and Pujols are the only active players with an outside shot of getting into the top 5...Bonds and Rodriguez will be in that top 5 but the rest are "clean" and unlikely to be unseated.
Funny how Jim Thome never gets the credit he is due. Sure he has played a long time and he has played for a great number of teams but still 600+homers is still pretty damn good in my book.
