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- Updated: July 19, 2016
NEW YORK — Leading off the second inning on Monday night, Alex Rodriguez — who had been sitting on 695 career home runs for exactly a month as his season-long struggles at the plate continued and his playing time slipped — unloaded on a Kevin Gausman fastball, driving it a Statcast-projected 423 feet into the left-field bleachers at Yankee Stadium.
“Finally,” he said after the Yankees’ 2-1 win in their series opener against the American League East-leading Orioles. “It was a long time.”
Before the game, Rodriguez was out on the field doing early batting-practice work with hitting coach Alan Cockrell. It was the same drill developed by former Yankees hitting coach Kevin Long and popularized by Robinson Cano — a net dividing the plate in half lengthwise, to make sure Rodriguez’s swing stayed short, while he worked on hitting the ball in the air.
“Mechanics have been a humongous struggle for me all year,” Rodriguez said. “I’ve been really bad …
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