Alex Rodriguez grounded out weakly to start the bottom of the 7th inning and an impatient Yankee Stadium crowd let its displeasure be known. Rodriguez was loudly booed off the field as he trotted to the dugout. The groundout made A-Rod 0-3 on the night. He later walked during a 9th-inning rally that saw the Yankees come up short and lose to the Nationals, 3-2. Rodriguez's batting average fell to .219 on the season but he does have 9 homeruns and an OPS of .852, which is well above average though more than 100 points below his career mark.