Alex Comes Through in the Clutch!

I watched it all unfold on Yankees Encore this morning and still can't believe it happened. Bottom of the ninth, two outs and down to his last strike, Alex Rodriguez came through in the clutch, blasting a grand slam to lead the Yankees to a come from behind 10-7 win against the Baltimore Orioles. Alex has hit game winning hits for the Yankees before, but I don't believe he's ever hit a more dramatic one then the grand slam he hit yesterday.

From the moment he hit it, he knew it was gone, the fans knew it was gone and the entire Yankees dugout knew it was gone as the Stadium just exploded in cheers.

As anyone who knows baseball, you know that it's a game where players fail to get a hit 7 times out of 10. If you succeed 3 out of 10 times, you're known as one of the greats in the history of the game. I don't know anywhere else, especially business, when you can be considered a success when you only succeed 30% of the time. Alex, like other baseball greats is not always going to be successful when he comes to bat. I don't know what it is, maybe just bad luck, but it always seems like it he's failing that 70% of the time when the game in on the line.

Yesterday was one of the 30% of the times that he didn't fail. And hopefully Yankee fans everywhere will start cheering Alex all of the time, no matter if and when he fails in the future. Yesterday was a great, great moment in Alex Rodriguez's time as a Yankee. It's the moment I was waiting for and I think it was also a moment that a lot of Yankee fans were waiting for from Alex Rodriguez.