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I'm watching the YES telecast on MLB Network. He's 5-for-5, just drove in potentially the winning run in the bottom of the eighth. John Sterling goes:

"And the fairytale continues!"

POOFMO

Kind of seemed fitting that 3,000 was a HR

Unrack him for not showing up in AZ. He's claiming exhaustion. Maybe it's time to retire.

jiminphilly wrote:He's claiming exhaustion.

Well, no shit.

MuchoBulls wrote:Kind of seemed fitting that 3,000 was a HR

Why?

Fitting would have been the ole "inside out swing" opposite field single.

MuchoBulls wrote:Kind of seemed fitting that 3,000 was a HR

IIRC, Molitor is the only other player for whom hit # 3,000 was a HR.

Terry in Crapchester wrote:

MuchoBulls wrote:Kind of seemed fitting that 3,000 was a HR

IIRC, Molitor is the only other player for whom hit # 3,000 was a HR.

Molitor...we grew up calling him 12 cent man because his baseball card was always like 12 cents.

Terry in Crapchester wrote:

MuchoBulls wrote:Kind of seemed fitting that 3,000 was a HR

IIRC, Molitor is the only other player for whom hit # 3,000 was a HR.

Wade Boggs, not Molitor.

ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2 wrote:

MuchoBulls wrote:Kind of seemed fitting that 3,000 was a HR

Why?

Fitting would have been the ole "inside out swing" opposite field single.

Fitting in that he was the first Yankee to do it.

Molitor is the only guy to triple for #3,000