"One of the ironies of human psychology is that desperately wanting something can make attaining that thing all the more difficult. When stakes go up, performance often goes down."
CAMBRIGE, Mass.- THE Boston Red Sox haven’t given their fans much to cheer about this summer so we’ve had to take our pleasure where we could find it, for example, by watching Alex Rodriguez of the Yankees struggle to hit his 600th career home run — again and again and again.
Rodriguez hit his 599th home run on July 22, bringing himself and his fans to the brink of celebration. And then, for 12 long days, he not only failed to drive the ball out of the park and into the history books, he also went hitless for 17 consecutive at-bats. This wasn’t the first time Rodriguez has stood at the precipice, and then stood there some more: after hitting his 499th home run in 2007, he came to the plate an excruciating 28 times before finally hitting his 500th.
Historic drive comes off Jays' Marcum after prolonged drought
NEW YORK -- There was little doubt off the bat.
With 47,659 fans filling the seats, Derek Jeter on first base, two outs and a 2-0 count against Toronto's Shaun Marcum in the first inning of Wednesday's 5-1 Yankees win, Alex Rodriguez became the seventh and youngest man in Major League history to hit 600 home runs with a shot to center field. The baseball -- specially branded with "A104" -- landed, perhaps fittingly, in the netting that guards Monument Park beyond Yankee Stadium's center-field wall, where it was snatched by security guard Frankie Babilonia.
Babilonia gave the ball to Rodriguez, receiving a signed bat in exchange.
Alex Rodríguez se convierte así en el jugador más joven al momento de batear el 600; pero no el jugador con menos partidos (Ruth lo hizo en su juego 2.044, luego A-Rod, en el 2.267 -siguen: Sosa, 2.302, Bonds, 2.395, Griffey Jr. 2.440, Mays, 2.557 y Aaron, 2.592...)
Rodriguez joins Barry Bonds (762), Hank Aaron (755), Babe Ruth (714), Willie Mays (660), Ken Griffey Jr. (630) and Sammy Sosa (609) as the only players to hit 600 or more home runs in Major League history. Ruth is the only other Yankee to reach the milestone. Griffey was the last man to reach the 600 plateau, hitting it on June 9, 2008, against Mark Hendrickson while a member of the Cincinnati Reds. Rodriguez is now just nine home runs shy of tying Sosa for sixth on the all-time list. The only active players currently within striking range of the plateau are Jim Thome (577 homers) and Manny Ramirez (554).
Pitcher Hisanori Takahashi of Japan and shortsop Jose Reyes of the Dominican Republic. | Ray Stubblebine/Reuters
ATLANTA — Carlos Beltran was 18, fresh from Puerto Rico, when he joined the Gulf Coast Royals in 1995. He spoke virtually no English.
Those were challenging days, he said, and he remembered more than one meeting with his manager in which only English was spoken. Though Beltran would nod in agreement, he had no idea what was really being said.
So Beltran, like many of the rest of the 15 active Mets born outside the continental United States, sees some validity in what Chicago White Sox Manager Ozzie Guillen said Sunday when he claimed Asian players were afforded preferential treatment. Why, Guillen wondered aloud, do Asian players get interpreters but Spanish-speaking players do not, especially at the lower levels of the minor leagues?
El pelotero zuliano Carlos González demostró una vez más el error que cometieron los Atléticos de Oakland cuando lo cambiaron. Anoche, en el juego contra los Cachorros (Car-Go, como ya le dicen los fanáticos de Colorado, simplemente los mata: batea de por vida de 19-34 contra Chicago) bateó sencillo, tubey, triple y jonrón, o sea la escalera (the cycle), pero con el detalle adicional que el jonrón lo dio en el cierre del noveno inning, con el juego empatado, sin outs y al primer lanzamiento del zurdo Sean Marshall, para dejar en el terreno al rival. Toda la tarde/noche el zurdo González no vio sino pitchers zurdos, ¡y los mató!
Portugal aplastó a los coreanos por siete goles a cero
Los jugadores de Corea del Norte tuvieron que soportar las críticas de alrededor de 400 funcionarios, atletas y estudiantes durante seis horas
La selección de fútbol de Corea del Norte recibió una reprimenda pública después de haber perdido sus tres partidos de la Copa del Mundo de Sudáfrica, uno de ellos por goleada ante Portugal (0-7), por órdenes del líder coreano Kim Jong-Il, según informó "Radio Free Asia"
Lo anunció Ernesto Cherquis Bialo, vocero del organismo, tras la reunión que tuvo Julio Grondona con el Comité Ejecutivo; Batista dirigirá al seleccionado ante Irlanda, en Dublin, el 11 de agosto, y Bilardo continuará como director general de selecciones; se espera por la palabra de Diego
La decisión fue unánime y se resolvió en menos de media hora. El vocero de la AFA, Ernesto Cherquis Bialo, confirmó hoy la salida de Diego Armando Maradona como entrenador del seleccionado nacional después de la reunión que mantuvo el Comité Ejecutivo en la sede del organismo, en la calle Viamonte.
La tarea que el pueblo... nos confió es la de construir sobre la piedra, imitando al constructor prudente. La piedra es esa naturaleza humana que nos revela el Evangelio.
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