Alex Rodriguez belted a home run in the fourth inning of Wednesday's spring training game against the Boston Red Sox. It appears as if his own team didn't care too much about it.
It was Rodriguez's first home run since September of 2013, but the official Yankees' Twitter account failed to acknowledge the milestone. In fact, they decided to address a number of other happenings, including prospect Slade Heathcott's meaningless home run in the ninth inning, which still left the team down by four runs.
Take a look at the account's chronological list of tweets before, during and after yesterday's game:
#Yankees and Red Sox are underway. #NYYSpring
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) March 11, 2015
Chris Capuano left today's game in the 1st inning with an apparent injury.
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) March 11, 2015
Rumbelow strands one and @JacobyEllsbury is up to bat. #NYYSpring
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) March 11, 2015
Chris Capuano has a strained right quadriceps, Brian Cashman tells YES.
— Bryan Hoch (@BryanHoch) March 11, 2015
RBIs from @JacobyEllsbury & @carlosbeltran15 give the #Yankees a 2-1 lead as we enter the 4th. #NYYSpring
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) March 11, 2015
.@DBetances50, straight filth. #BESTances pic.twitter.com/Tc9nEtykMI
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) March 11, 2015
Below is where they blatantly skipped over Rodriguez's home run, since it came in the fourth inning to cut the deficit to 5-3.
#Yankees trail 5-3 as we enter the 6th. #NYYSpring
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) March 11, 2015
Heathcott drills two-run homer in 9th, but #Yankees fall to Red Sox, 10-6.
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) March 11, 2015
And the recap headline?
RECAP: @JacobyEllsbury, @carlosbeltran15 notch RBIs in #NYYSpring contest with Red Sox: https://t.co/fXEAuRbeid pic.twitter.com/19Mejz4IQ8
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) March 11, 2015
Yes, Rodriguez was mentioned in the article, but as a baseball fan, wouldn't one think Rodriguez's home run (and overall stat line for the spring) is a bit more of a story than Ellsbury and Beltran knocking in their first RBIs of 2015? The headline and lead didn't even mention that either, which could have at least made a case for pushing A-Rod to the side.
Not to mention, Ellsbury and Beltran have been awful this far into spring training.
Rodriguez is batting .455.538/818 with one run scored, one double, one home run, two RBIs and two walks in five games after missing all of 2014 because of a PED suspension. The 39-year-old received a warm reception from his teammates and fans after the homer, despite being shunned by the team's social media.
However, the Yankees' Twitter account is not operated by a team employee, and according to the New York Daily News, there was "no directive from the team to omit A-Rod from the Twitter account," since it's run by MLB Advanced Media.
Whatever the case, something's fishy, based on the Tweets that followed. Unless the social media coordinator fell asleep, missed the home run and didn't bother acknowledging how that third run was knocked in, there's really no explanation as to how/why this happened.
