BOSTON -- And so it has come down to this: Friday night at Yankee Stadium against the Rays is the last game of Alex Rodriguez's baseball career.
The 41-year-old designated hitter made that pretty clear on Thursday night at Fenway Park after seeing that Yankees manager Joe Girardi had not only kept his promise to pencil him into the lineup, but batted him in the cleanup spot against Red Sox left-hander Eduardo Rodriguez.
"I'm focusing in on [these games] as this is it, I mean, like, this is it," A-Rod told a group of reporters in front of his locker in the cramped visitors' clubhouse at the old ballpark.