BOSTON -- Alex Rodriguez saved an 8-year-old boy from serious injury when he prevented the youngster from getting hit by a truck.
The New York Yankees star said Thursday he was standing in a crosswalk on Newbury Street near downtown Boston at about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday when he saw the boy starting to run across the street into the path of an onrushing truck.
Rodriguez reached out and grabbed the boy, pulling him back and preventing a serious accident.
"The kid was going to get run over. I just kind of put my arm out and stopped him," he said.
It turns out the boy, named Patrick McCarthy, was already a fan of A-Rod.
"This guy just put his hand in front of me and stopped me. ... He said 'Whoa, watch out, buddy,' " McCarthy said in a television interview Thursday. "I was like, 'Wow! Like I was shocked, because he's my favorite player on the Yankees."
Rodriguez said he also had to hurry to avoid being hit by the truck -- "I almost got it, too," he said -- which he estimated was traveling 40-50 mph when he saw the boy starting to run from the sidewalk.
He said McCarthy's mother saw what happened, but he didn't see the boy's father nearby.
"I did it and I just kept walking," Rodriguez said. "I don't even know if she knew who I was."
Tuesday was a day off in the middle of New York's three-game series against the Red Sox that ended Thursday night with Boston's 8-5 win.
Rodriguez said the boy would have been seriously injured or killed had he gotten past him.
"That was a train wreck waiting to happen," he said.
Rodriguez has often been booed at Fenway since he joined the Yankees last season. Teammate Derek Jeter didn't think Rodriguez's heroic act would make Red Sox fans like him any more.
"They didn't sound any different today," Jeter said.
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i saw this earlier and meant to post it. had it been reversed and it a boston fan who had the chance to save arod, they probably would have pushed im in front of the van
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I wonder how long it will be before A-Rod is doing an ad for some product where in the commercial he is leaping in front of a truck saving a little kid.
And what would that product be? hmmm...maybe Red Bull? It gives you wings I hear. And now it lets you save little children from trucks.
It's all becoming clear now.
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This is all they talked about during his at-bats last night on the YES network.
Alex Rodriguez wrote:
I did it and I just kept walking
Clearly, this quote shows that he doesn't want any praise for his actions. Which is obviously why he did an interview about it.
Mitchell wrote:
arod does a good deed and you're calling him names. real mature.
He did what he SHOULD have done. Anyone who doesn't put his arm in front of the kid and say "Watch out, buddy" is an asshole and deserves to get hit by a car.
Good job for being a decent human being, A-Rod. But it's not like he cured cancer. And I'd commend him a lot more if he told ESPN and the Associated Press that he'd rather not discuss the issue and just brushed it off as the decent thing to do. Way to whore it up, Pay-Rod.
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inadvertent imitation wrote:
This is all they talked about during his at-bats last night on the YES network.
Alex Rodriguez wrote:
I did it and I just kept walking
Clearly, this quote shows that he doesn't want any praise for his actions. Which is obviously why he did an interview about it.
Mitchell wrote:
arod does a good deed and you're calling him names. real mature.
He did what he SHOULD have done. Anyone who doesn't put his arm in front of the kid and say "Watch out, buddy" is an asshole and deserves to get hit by a car.
Good job for being a decent human being, A-Rod. But it's not like he cured cancer. And I'd commend him a lot more if he told ESPN and the Associated Press that he'd rather not discuss the issue and just brushed it off as the decent thing to do. Way to whore it up, Pay-Rod.
The guy could cure cancer and half the peolple on this board would find something wrong with that too.
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PJHutch wrote:
inadvertent imitation wrote:
This is all they talked about during his at-bats last night on the YES network.
Alex Rodriguez wrote:
I did it and I just kept walking
Clearly, this quote shows that he doesn't want any praise for his actions. Which is obviously why he did an interview about it.
Mitchell wrote:
arod does a good deed and you're calling him names. real mature.
He did what he SHOULD have done. Anyone who doesn't put his arm in front of the kid and say "Watch out, buddy" is an asshole and deserves to get hit by a car.
Good job for being a decent human being, A-Rod. But it's not like he cured cancer. And I'd commend him a lot more if he told ESPN and the Associated Press that he'd rather not discuss the issue and just brushed it off as the decent thing to do. Way to whore it up, Pay-Rod.
The guy could cure cancer and half the peolple on this board would find something wrong with that too.
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