A-Rod, who is just twenty-eight years old, is also well positioned to go after Ruth's career homerun total of 714.
Writer uses-answer-&-question quiz form to tell about important baseball events & statistics, including Hank Aaron's 715th homerun, struck in Atlanta on Apr. 8, 1974.
Paul Konerko went 3 for 4 with a homerun, two runs batted in and two runs.
But that one that's a homerun — giving them a little bit more time than they otherwise might have had — may make it worth the other four.
With that fourth novel in the tetralogy, he had the homerun with all the bases loaded.
If you get there soon, you can watch Barry Bonds close in on Hank Aaron's all-time homerun record (tickets available at giants.mlb.com or 877-473-4849; bleacher seats from $13; just $6 for kids on weekdays).
The Yankees' homerun power tailed off in the second half.
As might be expected, the cocktails are handled with care: the Homerun, if not quite the triumph its name implies, is refreshingly mature for a drink mixed with pineapple juice, and the addition of bourbon to a Bloody Mary affords a pleasant brown-sugar note.
The company did not disclose the purchase price of HomeRun, but said it planned to integrate the service within its e-commerce platform in order to leverage its network of customers.
With the purchase of HomeRun, a site that offers users localized discounts, Rearden will get access to the highly competitive and rapidly consolidating daily deal market — currently dominated by the social shopping site Groupon.
Rearden, which has raised a total $353 million since it was founded in 1999, also announced on Wednesday that it had acquired HomeRun, a daily deals service.
