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The New York Times
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April 11, 2007
Yankees 10, Twins 1
Seven Games, Six Homers: Rodriguez Stays Locked In
By TYLER KEPNER
MINNEAPOLIS, April 10 — The Minnesota Twins could have reached into
their past and cloned Walter Johnson, and it probably would have made no
difference. Alex Rodriguez is especially hot right now, seeming to
bludgeon any pitcher in his path.
Andy Pettitte took the Metrodome mound Tuesday night with a two-run lead
thanks to Rodriguez. If Pettitte were pitching against him, he admitted,
he would duck the challenge. “I’d probably tell my catcher to put four
fingers up and go after the next guy,” Pettitte said.
Rodriguez had never faced Boof Bonser before Tuesday, but it took just
six pitches to figure him out. Rodriguez blasted a high changeup into
the left-field seats for a two-run homer, propelling the Yankees to a
10-1 victory behind six shutout innings from Pettitte.
“He’s just unbelievable right now,” Pettitte said of Rodriguez, who
has six home runs in his first seven games. “He’s locked in, he’s
focused, he’s not giving at-bats away. It’s awesome to see.”
Last season, it took 28 games for Rodriguez to hit six home runs. He is
already there now, with a season-opening flurry that just one player has
ever exceeded.
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the record for home runs in the
first seven games of a season is seven, set by the Hall of Famer Mike
Schmidt for the Phillies in 1976; that stretch included a four-homer
game. Rodriguez is one of eight others — and the only Yankee — with
six in the first seven games.
“You don’t want to miss any of his at-bats right now,” catcher Jorge
Posada said. “That’s how good he is.”
The way Rodriguez is swinging, it hardly seems fair that Wednesday’s
opposing starter is Ramón Ortiz. In 48 career at-bats against Ortiz,
Rodriguez has a .333 average and eight home runs.
“Just trying to see the ball and hit it,” Rodriguez said. “Keeping it
simple.”
Rodriguez spoke mostly in platitudes, smiling when an agitated Mike
Mussina joked that his locker stall was crowded with reporters waiting
for Rodriguez.
“Come on!” Mussina wailed. “Six home runs in seven games? He’s
supposed to do that, just ask you guys!”
When talking about himself, Rodriguez had little to say. He was more
comfortable talking about Pettitte, whose victory was the first of his
second tour with the Yankees and the 150th of his Yankees career.
“It’s awesome playing behind Andy,” Rodriguez said. “He’s such a
competitor. He’s so focused and intense, and he’s a perfectionist.”
Pettitte’s victory followed a seven-inning effort by Carl Pavano on
Monday. Pettitte allowed four hits and a walk, striking out three. Twice
the Twins put a runner in scoring position with no outs, and both times
Pettitte escaped the inning.
Though he said his legs felt tired, the result of a layoff late in
spring training because of back spasms, Pettitte was pleased with how
aggressive he was against the Twins. He also worked better with Posada
than he had in his first start, when he lasted only four innings in a
game the Yankees lost to Tampa Bay.
“We had a good game plan,” Posada said. “The main thing was just
throwing everything for strikes, expanding the zone away and not using
the cutter until we needed to. We really worked it out.”
Rodriguez started last season with a grand slam on opening day, but over
the next 10 games he had just two extra-base hits and one run batted in.
Rodriguez drove in 16 runs last April; he has 15 already this month.
He came up in the first inning Tuesday with Derek Jeter on first and two
outs. The count ran full when Bonser got Rodriguez to chase a low
changeup. But the next changeup came in belt high and over the middle,
an invitation for Rodriguez to pounce.
He did, smashing the ball over the wall in left-center. At that point,
Rodriguez had 31 total bases in 26 at-bats, including six home runs.
Even when he flied out to right field in his next at-bat, Manager Joe
Torre said, the players on the bench thought the ball was gone.
“The way he’s swinging, all he has to do is make contact to hit the
ball hard,” Jeter said. “It’s one of those waves you hope you can
ride for a long time.”
The Twins walked Rodriguez intentionally his third time up. By then, the
Yankees had widened their lead to 6-0, helped by Melky Cabrera, who
would go 3 for 4 to shake a 2-for-21 slump.
Another rout was on, and Rodriguez had started it all, picking up where
he had finished in Monday’s 8-2 victory, when he homered in his last
at-bat.
The hitting coach Kevin Long said Rodriguez was keeping his leg kick
under control and staying short and compact in his swing.
From an aesthetic standpoint, Rodriguez has hiked up his pant legs to
just below the knees, showing off solid navy blue socks every game. He
has done it before, for a game or so at a time, but now it is part of
his ensemble.
“We were on a back field in the middle of spring training, just being
goofy,” Rodriguez said. “I was with my buddy Pepe, from Miami, and I
just put them up. He said, ‘You look like a Notre Dame football player,
’ and I just stuck with them after that.”
Whatever Rodriguez is doing, for whatever reasons, it is working.
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