Howard and A-Rod tie RBI record

On Tuesday, Alex Rodriguez drove in an RBI for the eighth consecutive postseason game, tying a record that had been set by Lou Gehrig 77 years ago. However, you wouldn’t know how rare a streak like this is since Ryan Howard tied it less than 24 hours earlier. The Phillies first baseman has produced a whopping 14 RBI in the first eight games of the postseason, while Rodriguez has driven in 10 runs since he started the streak in 2007.

Rodriguez has done so much already that he can probably play terrible the rest of the way and get away with it -- as long as the Yankees win it all. If they don’t, the tabloids will still be hard-pressed to find something to attack him on. For the first time since he joined the Yankees, he looks like he’s earning his $200,000 daily salary (or as close as any baseball player can. Can you imagine having $200,000 as walk-around money. Good god is he rich).