The veteran Yankee shortstop, Derek Jeter, finally reached another milestone, hitting his 3000th career hit, or should I say HOME RUN!!! Furthermore, he was 5-5 today with a triple shy of a cycle. "I was expecting a triple," Mariano Rivera, Yankee closer, states at the press conference. He joins the 3000 hits club, the 28th player in MLB history, the first ever Yankee to achieve 3000 hits. He is the second to hit a home run as his 3000th hit (Wade Boggs the first), the second to achieve 3000 hits while holding 3 or more World Series titles (Eddie Collins the first, with 6), and the second to have a 5-5 on his 3000th hit (Craig Biggio the first).
Before Jeter's 3000th, fans were on their feet chanting him all the way through whenever he was at bat. The fan who caught Jeter's 3000th hit baseball was later interviewed at the press conference. "I just wanted to see history," he said. And now he is part of it, like Michael Kay said. Unlike the fan who sold Barry Bonds' homerun ball on eBay or something, this fan said to the media that Jeter earned the ball. Well spoken. Nice guy.
It's also pretty fascinating how Jeter hit his 3000th at exactly 2:00 sharp.
Well done, Derek!
As usual, I had a philly cheesesteak.
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