It was an emotional night, one to see the embattled slugger with 696 home runs who can no longer catch up to fastballs just a year removed from missing an entire season due to more steroid allegations that have followed him his entire career.
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The “Mitchell Report”, which came out in 2009, that A-Rod had tested positive for steroids and testosterone back in 2003 before a positive test was even illegal. That certainly gave him a public black eye but no suspension from baseball.
That time came in 2013 when he was part of the Biogenesis scandal that caused MLB to suspend him for the entire 2014 season.