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- Updated: August 12, 2016
In the sixth inning on Aug. 26, 2002, Alex Rodriguez and Rafael Palmeiro of the Rangers hit back-to-back home runs off Orlando Hernandez at old Yankee Stadium.
It was the first live stream of a Major League Baseball game. It was the birth of MLB.TV.
Those same two batters would join Hank Aaron and Willie Mays as the only ones to reach at least 3,000 hits and 569 homers. Now Rodriguez is about to join his Ranger cohort in retirement, and MLB.TV will offer a free stream of the farewell game at 7:05 p.m. ET on Friday between the Rays and Yankees.
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It is kind of fitting that Rodriguez, 41, goes out this way. After Friday’s game, there are no remaining active players who played in that historic technology milestone.
The only other active player who was in uniform …
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