BRONX, N.Y. — Not one but two milestone home runs on this date for Alexander Emmanuel Rodriguez. How do I know? I was there!
In 2007, I was a few weeks away from returning to grad school and the New York Yankees series against the Kansas City Royals was one of the last bus trip games with available tickets from Albany to Yankee Stadium, so my dad bought them for a family trip. Well, lo and behold, a seemingly innocuous dog daze of August game against the Royals got interesting as A-Rod was stuck on 499 career round-trippers.