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Rodriguez hit a game-winning, walk off home run against the rival Red Sox in the 15th inning on Friday night. "I'm enjoying the game at a level that I really haven't enjoyed before," the third baseman told the New York Post. He added that he feels like a different person since admitting past steroid use in a February press conference. "I'm so fired up about the way things came out and I took a lot of things off my chest," he added. "For me, since that press conference, I feel like a new man. I feel like I've been embraced by not only the city of New York, but my teammates, my coaches and my manager. I just feel liberated by the way I came out and did things." Rodriguez also believes that he's finally gelling with his Yankee teammates. "This is the best I've ever gotten along with my teammates," Rodriguez said. "This is the most at peace I've been in New York, too. The humiliation of spring training and how embarrassing and hard that was for me allows you to sit here now and move forward and play baseball and that's what I'm good at. Anything else, when I have to talk, I'm not good at that." |
Alex Rodriguez is enjoying baseball more than ever before just months after a steroid scandal and hip surgery.