Rodriguez’s sore groin: “It’s fine now”
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Misc on Jun 06, 2010 
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After the eighth inning, Alex Rodriguez went into the manager’s office to tell Joe Girardi that his groin was sore. It had been bothering him a little bit before the game and got a little worse the game went on. Not wanting to take any chances, Girardi pulled Rodriguez from the game in the bottom of the ninth.
Rodriguez was watching with Girardi when new third baseman Ramiro Pena started the ninth with a ranging, jumping play for the first out.
“We were joking about it,” Rodriguez said “There would have gone my groin, right there.”
But Rodriguez is not worried about any long-term problems, speculating that 14 innings on turf yesterday followed by an early game today simply left him a little sore.
“It’s fine now,” he said. “I’ll be ready to go on Tuesday.”
Rodriguez was on deck in the top of the ninth, and Girardi planned to let him hit, then pinch run for him if he got on base. Rodriguez said the groin was not bothered by, nor did it impact, his base-running decision in the second inning.
Associated Press photo of Rodriguez after he was thrown out trying to stretch a single into a double in the second inning.
I’m glad Alex is going to be ok…………and lol at his comment
I hate the artificial turf.
Ledger_Yankees Cito said he walked Teixeira to set up the double play. But he left the decision to face Cano with first base open to Frasor. Bad decision.
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I love his comment on Pena’s throw!
Doesn’t sound like too big of an issue-it was the right move taking him out.
AJ Burnett throws a straight 95 mph fastball and Jose Bautista just plants 2 bombs in the seats off of him.
Pap throws straight as an arrow 95 mph slop right down the middle, and it’s fouled off.
I swear, that decision still makes no sense. Tex is practically an automatic out anyway – and Alex is a far greater hitter. If managers keep thinking like this, I’ll take it, but I’m befuddled.
Joba threw 95 right down the middle, and Jose Molina of all people, and Jose just sticks it to the oppo field gap.
Blue Jays beat writer Jordan Bastian just walked over to tell the Yankees writers that Cito Gaston left the decision of whether to walk or pitch to Cano up to reliever Jason Frasor. Oops.
Betsy
Dont question it. Cito gifted us a game. Thank him, move on, and hope for him to gift us other ones in the future.
Chad, can youalso find out if Gardner is okay after that HBP?
I’m just worried.
so maybe Frasor missed the memo on that one
Let’s get Wiggy wit’ it.
Hi all,
Who is the this Dreckman you were talking about? Also, where is Michael Kay?
Really am not sure why managers put a guy on base to “set up” a DP as often as they do (precluding glaring match-up disparities) – GIDPs are only recorded in 11% of situations that could result in one.
Walking Tex made no sense. You don’t put an easy out on base. Managers over think sometimes.
Wonder if this convrsation could cause a problem; Girardi was thrown out of the game; believe it is against the rules to participate in any game functions after that.
This reported reported conversation between Girardi and Rodriguez states the after their conversation, Girardi pulled Alex from the game. Maybe over reacting here, but, with our luck someone could try to something out of the story.
Maybe being a little paranoid here.
Birds give a try, that’s it.
Dreckman = home plate umpire.
whoever
Not paranoid at all. Dont think anybody will do anything, but would never be surprised if they did.
And Lou Montanez crushed a ball to basically win the game, and Cameron made a nice catch.
Cameron tried to make it look great by doing his usual Willie Mays over the shoulder, but he certainly did not have to.
I guess all Red Sox CFers just like to make plays look more difficult than they are.
Even though I would have pitched to Tex instead of walking him to get to Alex, Tex is still a dangerous hitter. Yes, he is mired in a God awful slump right now, but most managers aren’t going to want to gamble on when exactly it will be when he comes out of it. Trying to get Alex to bounce into a DP might actually be the safer move (although it hasn’t worked out too well this year so far).
Thanks Nick!!!
I have officially benched Tex for next week from Erica’s Avengers
He will no doubt now have the week of his life!
I cant believe the whiners on here that bother Chad and Sam with emails about my ******’ing.
You people are unbelievable. You complain about whiners, and yet you whine about asterisks. Asterisks are meant in place of bad words. And yet that is whined over also.
What a bunch of high school attitudes. UGH!
Erica,
Since you unselfishly gave up on Tex, I hope he has a great week. Maybe if you told Tex, himself, about this, he would give you a small percentage of his salary!!!!
As long as Girardi didn’t talk about signjng LeBron he’ll be fine.
MLB knows managers who are ejected keep running the game. The umps just don’t have to look at or listen to them any more.
Maybe Tuesday it’ll be time for Jorge to catch and Alex can DH for a day or two if it’s still a little tight. This lineup needs Jorge catching and a new DH.
Was the same guy from Friday night in the booth today? I saw TBS today, pretty bland, but I thought Kay’s replacement Friday night was good, or I should say way better than Kay.
For the record from the first day I visited here I have never complained to the site managers or editors about one %&*#ing thing!
“I have officially benched Tex for next week from Erica’s Avengers”
The hidden scandal here is that you unbenched Tex after he started hitting again, thereby sending back into a slump spiral.
Maybe you need to trade him altogether for the good of the Yankees.
Tex has been put in a reserve role for next week for Erica’s Avengers.
Nick in SF June 6th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
“I have officially benched Tex for next week from Erica’s Avengers”
The hidden scandal here is that you unbenched Tex after he started hitting again, thereby sending back into a slump spiral.
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I did seek permission before doing so.
The last time I benched him happened to be his one really hot week in May
Ubaldo is about to win 11
informed leaguer June 6th, 2010 at 5:41 pm
Tex has been put in a reserve role for next week for Erica’s Avengers.
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Thank you fellow leaguer for the confirmation!
When I spoke earlier, I had the plan in my head but in my anxiousness to get to the beach failed to execute properly. Sorry for any confusion!
I don’t really trust updates until they’ve been confirmed by an informed leaguer.
BAL has taken bos to the 11 in a 3-3 tie! Papelbon was used in the 9th if you can believe, wasted in the 9th!
SAS June 6th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
Erica,
Since you unselfishly gave up on Tex, I hope he has a great week. Maybe if you told Tex, himself, about this, he would give you a small percentage of his salary!!!!
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LOL.
I believe someone here yesterday commented that Tex was paid 31K for each strike out yesterday. Since those 5Ks cost my team 2.5 points, I would be more than happy to accept the $31K for one strike out
Erica, Fantasy Teix is going to be mad at you.
You told us before you told him.
Cervelli has been dropped from the team of Erica’s Avengers. Jorge Posada has been placed in the starting lineup for the upcoming week.
Erica
You know I like you, so I wont ask if Tex was benched for today’s game.
Besides everything worked out.
I think the question mightbe, how O’s will lose this game.
Tarheelyank June 6th, 2010 at 5:46 pm
Erica
You know I like you, so I wont ask if Tex was benched for today’s game.
Besides everything worked out.
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As “informed leaguer” can collaborate, we can make roster changes at any time- but they are only effective starting Mondays. Benching him prior to today’s game wouldn’t have mattered cause he is on my active roster until the first game tomorrow no matter what
Texas fighting back!!!!!!!!!5 to 4 top 7th
Walking Tex made no sense, especially when you consider how bad he has been at getting runners in from 3rd with less than 2 outs. The guy can’t buy a hit right now. I doubt he could even buy a sack fly or a ground ball. Pitching to Cano made even less sense. If it was a lefty on the mound I would have understood the move a little bit, but Cano is arguably the best hitter in baseball right now, he had already had 2 hits in the game, and he was facing a right-handed pitcher. Posada is a very good hitter, but Cano is in a different league right now.
informed leaguer June 6th, 2010 at 5:46 pm
Cervelli has been dropped from the team of Erica’s Avengers. Jorge Posada has been placed in the starting lineup for the upcoming week.
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This is correct.
Cervelli was just a temporary pick up while Posada was hurt. There is no place for Posada and Cervelli on my active roster. So I am sorry to say that while I wish the Cisco kid the best, he will only be playing as a New York Yankee and not an Erica’s Avenger.
However, Cervelli’s BA tanked as soon as I picked him up so this is probably for the best as well
I’ll have the regular postgame notes in a bit, but first I added a post about the confusion about the eighth-inning pitching change.
cho?kejima time
Erica in NY tells the truth as always in her 5:49 p.m. post. “informed leaguer” hopes Erica in NY had a great day at the beach and protected herself with sunscreen.
Great comeback (bullpen implosion) for the Yankees! You just never know, and that’s why getting all worked up about individual players and going on and on about isolated at-bats is asinine.
Watching some of this O’s/Sox game. Hernandez did a pretty good job in his last 2 IP. But it’s really sad to hear more cheering for the Sox than the O’s. Some guy on the radio said that a lot of Sox fans go to the O’s game because it’s cheaper and easier to get tickets and the travel’s really easy.
Also, I thought I was listening to nesn, but it was masn.
Who’s the guy that sounds like that red sox homer on nesn?
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BAL beat bos in 11 innings with a lefty lefty match up!!
Tor,bos lost today and it’s all good!!
“Papelbon was used in the 9th if you can believe, wasted in the 9th!”
Nice walkoff by the O’s. I would guess that Tito was hoping to get two innings from him, until he had to throw 21 pitches in that first inning. I thought getting seven innings from Lackey would have given them the edge over the Orioles’ pen. Even though Lackey gave them 7IP w/ 2ER, it took him 124 pitches and he still allowed 10 baserunners while only getting two strikeouts. Something I found interesting, was that he got three swinging strikes against Adam Jones and only one swinging strike against the rest of the lineup. Jones even bunted in his final AB. Considering Boston’s financial resources, I’m glad they have invested so much in Lackey/Beckett.