Baseball Special Report - Yankees A-Rod: Who says number 13 is bad?
History is littered with examples where supernatural thoughts, perceptions and related actions proved to be a source of fear. Although superstitions have undergone many alterations, but they can still be found in the world of sports. Number 13 is as famous as the New York Yankees in Major League Baseball. Alex Rodriguez wore the No. 13 shirt and proved that numbers had nothing to do with actual performances.
Alex Rodriguez is also known with the nickname of A-Rod. Rodriguez quite recently became only the seventh player to join the 600 club along with Barry Bonds, Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Willie May, Sammy Sosa, and Ken Griffey Jr. Rodriguez who have more than 600 home runs each.
Here are 13 facts regarding the No. 13 player which proves that the number has no bad omens attached to it:
Rodriguez hit his first homerun against Kansas City Royals while playing for the Seattle Mariners in 1995. He stayed with the Mariners and scored his 100th homer in 1998. In 2000, Rodriguez was drafted by the Texas Rangers which further improved his performance. He achieved his 200th homer in 2001 against Chicago White Sox’s pitcher Jon Garland. The journey for Rodriguez continued as he moved to the famous New York Yankees. He crossed the 400th mark while hitting a homerun off Jorge de la Rosa in 2005. The hitting never stopped and Rodriguez improved further. Alex hit his 500th homerun with the New York Yankees in 2007. 2010 brought good fortune for the Yankees’ star batter as he attained world-wide attention for his biggest breakthrough of hitting the 600th homer against Kansas City Royals.
Rodriguez topped the league by hitting 52 homers in 2001, 57 in 2001, 47 in 2003, and in 2005 he also led the league in terms of home runs by hitting 48 in total.
There are 55 multi-homer games in which Alex hit 3 home runs in a game but somehow failed to hit four which is another strange fact associated with A-Rod.
Rodriguez is the only one with 310 home runs in 21 finals while the bases remained empty.
Rodriguez has been fierce against the righties and soft-hearted against the lefties as he scored 454 homers against right-arm pitchers and only 146 against left-armers.
The player has hit 310 of his homers at home while 290 on the road.
Rodriguez mostly enjoyed playing against the Angels as he has hit 67 homers again them.
He has been attached with three different teams during his career and he has different number of homers with each team. He hit 255, 189 and 156 for the Yankees, Mariners, and Rangers respectively.
He earned his longest streaks in five successive games in 1999, 2003, and 2007.
Ramon Qrtiz, David Wells, and Bartolo Colon suffered many injuries due to A-Rod.
Yankees’ stadium tops the list where Rodriguez hit 125 homers, Ranger Ballpark is in the second place where he hit 96 and Safeco is third with 60 hits.
He has hit more than 30 home runs in 12 seasons in a row.
The player has hit seventeen homers in the ongoing season.
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