Rodriguez ties Williams, McCovey on HR list

Alex Rodriguez has a lot of milestone home runs in front of him. Last night, he got a little closer to the top, tying two of baseball's all-time greats with a prodigious wallop in the first inning.

His 450-foot blast off Andy Sonnanstine was the 521st of his career, tying him with Ted Williams and Willie McCovey for 15th place on the all-time ledger. "It makes you cringe a little bit," he said after the Yankees' 8-7 win over the Rays. "It definitely humbles you. I'm at a point in my career where you do some things, touching some of these names, it's hard to believe." Continue