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June 1, 2007
Rodriguez pulled a bone-head play on Wednesday in Toronto when he distracted Blue Jays third baseman Howie Clark and shortstop John McDonald by yelling "mine" as he was about to round third base.
Yankees manager Joe Torre responded to the incident a little while ago.
“He probably shouldn’t have done it,” said Torre. “But, it’s over with and I get the sense he won’t do it again. Just the [players’] reaction probably told him that and maybe he was just excited we were leading the ballgame he was going around third base. It was probably inappropriate to do it at the time he did it, but there’s nothing he can do about it.”
There was a shot of the Toronto players glaring at A-Rod for the bush-league play.
“They were angry, there’s no question and I can’t say I blame them,” said Torre. “But what are you going to do about it? What’s happened has happened.”
“The reaction that came with it, I don’t think (Rodriguez) expected that reaction,” added Torre. “I don’t think he did anything serious, but it turned out that way.”
Torre said during his playing days as a catcher, when a pop up would be near the opponent’s dugout, he would constantly hear ‘I got it. I got it’ from the opposition.
“You just have to catch the ball,” said the Yankees skipper.
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