Even the Yankees couldn’t contest or withhold the intangible bonuses Alex Rodriguez stumbled into on the weekend he joined baseball’s 3,000-hit club with a home run flourish.
To begin with, Yankee Stadium welcomed the Detroit Tigers, the team against which Rodriguez experienced the most humbling experiences of his more than a decade in New York, his suspension for the 2014 season excluded.
On Saturday, Old-Timers’ Day, the annual festivity of remembrance, how could we forget Joe Torre’s demotion of a slumping Rodriguez to eighth in the batting order in Game 4 of a 2006 American League division series in Detroit?