Tuesday night, Alex Rodriguez gimped his ankle when he collided with Seattle third baseman Andrian Beltre. The injury looked bogus to me. I couldn’t see anything on the replay that would have caused A-Rod the injury his ankle. Nonetheless, he limped into Yankee Stadium last night ready to play.

“I knew I felt good enough to play, and I came with the mind-set ready to play,” Alex said.

Espn.com reports that “The two-time MVP walked and popped out in his first two plate appearances against Jarrod Washburn (9-13). Then, with the Yankees trailing 2-1, Rodriguez hit a 3-2 fastball into Monument Park in left-center leading off the seventh. Pinch-hitter Jorge Posada’s bases-loaded walk off Sean Green put the Yankees ahead, and New York padded the margin on Johnny Damon’s run-scoring grounder, Melky Cabrera’s RBI single and Derek Jeter’s two-run double.

Rodriguez then drove a 2-1 pitch from Brandon Morrow into the left-field seats for a two-run homer. He rounded the bases, received congratulations in the dugout and emerged for his second curtain call of the inning.”

Not a bad game for a man with a bad ankle.