By Gethin Coolbaugh, The Sports Xchange
BOSTON - Alex Rodriguez had a lot of things to think about when he stepped to the plate as a pinch hitter in the eight inning of a tie game on Friday night at Fenway Park.
Making history wasn't one of them.
"Not home run," said Rodriguez, asked what was going through his mind during the at-bat in which he hit his 660th career home run to tie Willie Mays for fourth place on the all-time home run list in the New York Yankees' 3-2 win over the Boston Red Sox.
BOSTON - Alex Rodriguez had a lot of things to think about when he stepped to the plate as a pinch hitter in the eight inning of a tie game on Friday night at Fenway Park.
Making history wasn't one of them.
"Not home run," said Rodriguez, asked what was going through his mind during the at-bat in which he hit his 660th career home run to tie Willie Mays for fourth place on the all-time home run list in the New York Yankees' 3-2 win over the Boston Red Sox.