I'm 500 Home Runs. I'm Your Density.

Published: July 26, 2007, 9:02 am

It will be interesting to see if Alex Rodriguez can connect for his 500th home run against Jorge De La Rosa of the Royals tonight. De La Rosa gave up #400 a little more than two years ago and if he should find himself on the wrong side of history again it may have the strange effect of guaranteeing him a job for life. This Sunday the Times ran an article about John Yandle, a former AAA pitcher who has found a second baseball life as Barry Bonds's personal batting practice pitcher. Seeing as how De La Rosa's career ERA currently sits at 5.76 he probably will be out of the league before A-Rod's done slugging homers. He might want to serve up a meatball as a reference for his next gig. De La Rosa finds himself in that precarious position because Gil Meche gave up 499 last night, a less sexy number but an important homer all the same. It opened a 3-1 lead into a 5-1 edge and helped assure the Yankees of a sixth straight win. The final was 7-1 after some padding that followed A-Rod's

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