Rodriguez also finally displayed his prodigious power on Sunday afternoon. He clobbered his first career home run – a mammoth 450-foot three-run blast – off of Marlins ace Sandy Alcantara in the sixth inning. The pitch was a 97.0 mph fastball and was turned around with an exit velocity of 110.4 mph. Not too shabby. Perhaps he felt a bit disrespected by the fact that the Marlins walked Abraham Toro-Hernandez intentionally in front of him, choosing to attack Rodriguez instead. When asked after the game whether Rodriguez had ever had the batter in front of him intentionally walked at any level before, he responded, “Nah, that was a first, and that’s what they got”.
Haha...... never intentionally walk the batter ahead of J-Rod.