Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez smacked a home run in the first at-bat of his first rehab game in Tampa on Friday night. "For me, the home run meant a little bit more than a home run just because the last several weeks I was playing in New York I wasn't able to drive the ball," Rodriguez said. "I probably didn't hit a home run for like, over 70 at-bats." Rodriguez finished 2-for-3 with two RBIs. He played the first of what is expected to be four minor league rehab games before rejoining the Yankees sometime during their seven-game, seven-day road trip next week. "Just making sure that we take it one step at a time," Rodriguez said. "We've got about five or six days here to work with, and my idea is to always to ramp it up and hopefully keep increasing the intensity."