It didn’t take Alex Rodriguez long to put the Fenway Park masses to sleep last night.
Booed mercilessly as he arrived at the plate, baseball’s preeminent lightning rod rifled a 2-1 pitch from Clay Buchholz over the Monster Seats for a first-inning home run, quieting a Fenway crowd that’s been hungering for a great Red Sox-Yankees summertime showdown for what seems like forever.
And then, with one out in the fourth inning, Buchholz delivered a pitch without zip. Buchholz knew it. His catcher, Sandy Leon, knew it.
Buchholz summoned Leon to the mound, and told him something was wrong with his elbow.