By LINDA ROBERTSON
lrobertson@MiamiHerald.com
The Alex Rodriguez saga grew more peculiar on a balmy baseball night in his hometown.
There is never a dull moment with Rodriguez, nor an uncomplicated one.
We know him as A-Rod or A-Fraud or A-Bod or A-Wad, depending on the circumstance.
For the first game of the New York Yankees three-day series against the Marlins, he was MIA-Rod.
Rodriguez did not take his customary spot at third base or as cleanup hitter in the Yankees’ 5-1 victory Friday night. He did not take the field at all. Instead, the home-grown superstar who was on the verge of playing a regular season game in Miami for the first time in his major-league career took the night off. And he is supposed to sit on Saturday, too. He was removed from the lineup because of fatigue.
Rodriguez, who is mired in a June swoon with a .145 batting average and only two home runs this month, and manager Joe Girardi said the decision was mutual. But there were rumors that the two spoke sharply to each other behind closed clubhouse doors a few hours before game time. More – MiamiHerald.com
