Alex Rodriguez

...in the first inning of World Series Game 4. Rodriguez, hit by Cole Hamels and Chad Durbin in Game 3, came up with runners at second and third and the Yankees already ahead 1-0 Sunday night. He was hit with the first pitch, stood near the...

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...3-0 in the fourth inning. Mark Teixeira was on first base with one out when Rodriguez sent an 0-1 pitch down the line off 2008 World Series MVP Cole Hamels, and the ball bounded back on the field. Rodriguez stopped at second base,...

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...of those games where you could really redeem yourself." Hamels allowed only one base runner through the first three innings -- that coming when he drilled Rodriguez in the back. But a walk to Mark Teixeira with one out in the fourth...

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...RBI in the last three games. He hit a nuclear home run off Cole Hamels in Game 3, effectively halting the Phillies' runaway momentum against Pettitte, and then won Game 4 with a ninth-inning double off Brad Lidge. A-Rod was at it again in...

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...out there and it was a big win for us." Phillies southpaw starter Cole Hamels, the 2008 World Series Most Valuable Player, surrendered his first hit on the homer to Rodriguez in the fourth. The ball struck a camera just above the...

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...hit Rodriguez with the first pitch he threw in A-Rod's first at-bat. Odd thing was, at the time Hamels hit him, Rodriguez was 0 for 8 with six strikeouts in the series. Rodriguez answered Hamels by blasting a two-run homer in his next...

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...first-ever World Series hit. Mark Teixeira was on first base with one out when Rodriguez sent an 0-1 fastball down the line off 2008 World Series MVP Cole Hamels, who at first thought A-Rod had popped up. The ball carried and bounded back...

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...meant a 7-4 win and a 3-1 Yankees lead in the Series. Phillies starter Joe Blanton had continued what Cole Hamels began in the second inning of Game 3, when Hamels hit Rodriguez. On Saturday, A-Rod responded with a two-run homer in his...

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