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Yankees’ hitting coach Kevin Long says he expects both Robinson Canó and Alex Rodriguez to improve by April.

There are some signs of a reckoning in sports where teams have grown accustomed to living in a manner that some would call grotesquely and dangerously large.

Alex Rodriguez hit a grand slam and Derek Jeter homered to tie the Yankees legend Lou Gehrig for most hits ever at in a victory over Tampa Bay on Sunday.

The Yankees scouted Garza in 2005, but they passed on him with the 17th pick. The Minnesota Twins took Garza eight picks later, and now he is 11-8 for the Rays.

A home run protested by the Tampa Bay Rays was the 549th of Rodriguez’s career, and it punctuated a victory, the Yankees’ third win in three games this month.

Darrell Rasner lasted into the seventh, leaving the mound with a 6-3 lead, but the Yankees couldn’t hold the lead and came up short in the bottom of the ninth inning.

After 25 days at the Olympics, what a treat it was to get off the plane and hear the anguished yowls of Yankees fans, taking it out on Alex Rodriguez.

Alex Rodriguez and Jason Giambi have hit fourth and fifth in the Yankees’ lineup in each of the last 11 games, yet they continue to struggle in the clutch.

With the Yankees playing a series that may be the closest they get to the postseason this year, Alex Rodriguez was in October form.

Alex Rodriguez saved the Yankees with a line-drive homer to center off Matt Guerrier in the 12th inning.