Cabrera hits for cycle
No one on the bench wanted Melky Cabrera to stop. He wasn’t about to, anyway, when he saw the ball shoot out into right field.
He sprinted around second and slid into third just ahead of the relay to complete a rare cycle. And in a flash, his teammates went wild on the bench.
“Definitely a day to remember,” Alex Rodriguez said after the Yankees’ win over the White Sox in Chicago.
Cabrera’s cycle was the 15th time a Yankees player has accomplished the feat and he’s the first Yankee to do it in 14 years.
Cabrera hit a three-run homer in the second to give the Yankees a 3-0 lead, doubled in the fourth and had an RBI single in the fifth. He then tripled to right leading off the ninth.
When he looked into the dugout after the triple, Cabrera said, “I felt very happy.” He saw a raucous bench, a group that wanted him to go for the triple.
On the other side?
“It was very painful,” manager Ozzie Guillen said, laughing.
The cycle was the first for the Yankees since Tony Fernandez did it against Oakland on Sept. 3, 1995.
Report: Red Sox fired staffers over steroids
A Boston newspaper is reporting the Red Sox fired two security staffers last summer after an investigation into steroid use.
Jared Remy, the son of Red Sox television commentator Jerry Remy, and Nicholas Alex Cyr both told the Boston Globe they used steroids, but denied any knowledge of drug use by players.
The Red Sox issued a statement saying they worked with Major League Baseball in investigating the staffers, but said that investigation is confidential. Major League Baseball said its investigation was “thorough and detailed.”
The Globe says state police confiscated a vial of steroids from Cyr’s car just before last year’s All-Star break and Cyr told police he had bought the drug from Remy.
Clearing the bases
Third baseman Scott Rolen was left with just a knot on his head but no other problems after leaving his second game with the Reds in the seventh inning when he was struck on his batting helmet by a pitch from Colorado’s Jason Marquis. … Blue Jays closer Scott Downs was placed on the disabled list after aggravating the injured left big toe that landed him on the DL earlier this season. The Blue Jays recalled right-hander Jeremy Accardo to take Downs’ roster spot. Right-hander Jason Frasor will handle most of the ninth-inning duties while Downs is out. … Royals right-hander Sidney Ponson was designated for assignment, and the team plans to bring up right-hander Kyle Davies from Triple-A Omaha.