The game, the season, they tracked down Alex Rodriguez Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium. What, you thought a year away from the game plus good behavior would alter his baseball karma?
And in what will go down as the most important at-bat of this 2015 Yankees postseason, A-Rod swung at the first Dallas Keuchel pitch he saw of his third encounter, a cutter, and lifted it harmlessly to center field, where Carlos Gomez caught for the last out of the sixth inning, stranding the tying runs Carlos Beltran and Chris Young at first and second base. The Yankees, despite playing in front of a surprisingly engaged Stadium crowd, went down quietly to Keuchel and the Astros in this American League wild-card game, 3-0, ending their run in the same meek fashion that characterized their last week of the regular season.