11pm Sports 08/07/2016

Hayley Milon covers sports for WMDT 47abc

bronx today. alex rodrigez and the yankees announced that the three time most valuable player will play his final major league baseball game on friday against the rays at yankee stadium. the slugger hashit 696 homeruns in his career, trailing only barry bonds, hank aaron, and babe ruth for most in mlb history. his career has been painted with corovery. he served a historic suspension for all of the 2014 season after violating the league’s policy on performance enhancing drugs. the yankees will pay rodriguex the 26.4 million dollars remaining on his contract for the season. everyone is wondering…as the o’s took on the white sox what didmanny machado eat for breakfast this morning? top of the first facing james shields, machado lifts this one to cf for a 2 run shot then again in the 2nd, o’s leading 3-0 marchado pulls this one to left field for a three run homer, shields at this point is just getting lit up. same inning chris davis likes the way machados think, he hits a solo shot, and eilds would exit the game after that, in the 2nd, giving up 7 runs in the third inning the orioles with the 10-0 le machado does it again, hits another home run the final score10-2 machados laser show today is the just 21st time in team history that a player has homered in a single game, and he’s the ninth player in major league history to homer in three consecutrive innings. to washington, we had a rubber match as the nats hosted the giants madison bumgardner just fanning guys left and right gets daniel murphy swinging the in the fourth inning gets danny espinosa chasing the breaking ball in the dirt the to the top of the 7th, game still scoreless, brandon belt up he drives this pitch to deep center, he thinks itll carry but ben revere makes an incredible catch at the wall same innings, nationals up. wilson ramos lifts this one to right field it goes out gives the nats a 1-0lead. thats his 18th on the season. to the top of the ninth mark melacon in for the nats… he gets hunter pence swinging in the dirt final score 1-0… not nearly as much action as we saw for the orioles. hairstyles brought here’s

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