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During 2005, manager Joe Torre compared Canó to Hall of Famer Rod Carew. Torre clarified that he meant that Canó "reminded" him of Carew, in terms of his build, presence at the plate, and smoothness in his swing. Gonzalez, who leads the American League in batting average at .354 and the major leagues in runs batted in with 77 so far this season, stroked 11 home runs to take his total to 31. The fan was grabbed by his brother before going all the way over, where he could have fallen about 20 feet, and was dangling by his feet when he was pulled back up. The Dominican Republic defeated Puerto Rico 3–0 in the finals to win the championship and became the first undefeated team in the tournament's history. He joined Dominican Republic teammates Octavio Dotel and Santiago Casilla as part of the four players to ever have won a World Series and World Baseball Classic, after Daisuke Matsuzaka completed the feat.
Canó also won the American League Silver Slugger Award for second basemen with a batting average of .319, 29 home runs and 109 runs batted in. On April 13, 2013, Canó made his first career appearance at shortstop. He began the first half of the 2013 season with a .302 batting average, 21 home runs, and 65 RBI.
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The four were later joined by a fifth, Koji Uehara, after he won in 2013 with the Boston Red Sox. Eleven more players have gone on accomplish the feat, including David Robertson with whom Cano won a World Series in 2009. Canó suffered through acid reflux during the 2015 season, which resulted from the treatment of the parasite. He was not named to the 2015 All-Star Game roster, ending a streak of five consecutive years as an All-Star. He hit .287 with 21 home runs, 34 doubles, and 79 RBIs in 156 games during the 2015 season, but improved in the second half of the season, batting .330. He tied for 2nd in the AL in double plays grounded into, with 26.
Gonzalez hit a ball that wound up in the swimming pool in right field -- along with Mike Moon, a 26-year-old fan who caught the ball before falling into the water, where he was surrounded by bikini-clad women. González hit a ball that wound up in the swimming pool in right field — along with Mike Moon, a 26-year-old fan who caught the ball before falling into the water, where he was surrounded by bikini-clad women. With commercial breaks and other interruptions, the derby has become a three-hour affair that's so slow a regular-season game seems like an Olympic downhill ski race. Before a crowd of 44,820 on the night before the All-Star game, Major League Baseball said Cano set a final-round record. His father, Jose, appeared in six games for the Houston Astros in 1989.
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The home run also made him the 16th major leaguer to bat at least .300 with 2,000 hits, 1,000 runs scored, 1,000 runs driven in, and 500 doubles. In 2009, Canó hit .320 with 204 hits, 25 home runs and 85 RBI. Canó ranked in the top ten among players in the American league in hits, extra base hits, total bases, at bats, doubles, batting average, runs scored, and triples. His 200th hit against the Boston Red Sox to clinch the AL East Division made him and Derek Jeter the first middle infield duo in MLB history to both have 200 hits in the same season. On July 20, 2012, Canó extended his career-high hitting streak to 23 games with a single off of Oakland Athletics pitcher Tommy Milone in a 3–2 Yankees loss.
He spent seventh, eighth, and ninth grades in the Newark School System, attending Barringer High School for one year. When his family moved back to the Dominican Republic, Canó attended San Pedro Apostol High School in San Pedro de Macorís, where he played for the school's baseball and basketball teams. In the Dominican Winter Baseball League he plays for his hometown team, the Estrellas Orientales. Canó has tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs twice. In 2018, Canó was suspended from MLB for 80 games for violating the league's joint drug agreement by using furosemide.
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Yet, despite a decrease in his production, Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano is adamant that he has not noticed any effect of the Derby on his swing. In another Yankees-Red Sox showdown, Cano outslugged Adrian Gonzalez in the final round of the All-Star Home Run Derby on Monday night, even through his Boston rival made the biggest splash at Chase Field. PHOENIX --It's Robinson Cano who's carrying the Yankee Pride so far at the All-Star festivities.
He won the Home Run Derby Monday night in a duel with Red Sox first baseman Adrian Gonzalez. In another Yankees-Red Sox showdown, Canó outslugged Adrian González in the final round of the All-Star Home Run Derby on Monday night, even through his Boston rival made the biggest splash at Chase Field. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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Fielder hit only nine home runs, but one was measured at 474 feet for the longest blast of the competition. Any swing that failed to produce a home run counted as an out and each player was allowed 10 outs in the round. The Dominican had used just six outs when he went on a final power surge. PHOENIX - Robinson Cano of the New York Yankees belted a record 12 home runs in the final round to overtake Adrian Gonzalez of the Boston Red Sox and win Monday’s Home Run Derby on the eve of the 82nd All-Star Game. Girardi gave Saturday’s lineup card to Jeter but did save a game-used ball.
During his only plate appearance of the 2013 All-Star Game, he was hit by a pitch thrown by Matt Harvey and suffered a right quad contusion. A native of San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic, Canó signed with the Yankees organization as an amateur free agent in 2001. He played for the Yankees from 2005 to 2013, winning a World Series championship in 2009.
And, in the last 10 games of the season, he went on a ferocious tear, going 24-for-39 for an .615 average with three home runs, seven doubles and 14 RBI. Canó finished the 2012 season with a .313 batting average, 48 doubles, 33 home runs, and 94 RBI. Canó hit .343 with four home runs and 6 RBIs in the 2010 postseason. He finished the season with a .996 fielding percentage, the best for a second baseman in MLB, committing only three errors in 158 games. Canó won the American League Gold Glove Award for second basemen in 2010, the first by a Yankee second baseman since Bobby Richardson's five-year run from 1961 to 1965.
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Canó was also suspended for the entire 2021 season after testing positive for stanozolol. "It just came right at me, and I reached up and grabbed, I played a little trick like I didn't have it," he said, making a tucking motion with his glove, "then went, oh, here it is. It's pretty cool." "I stepped up on the table, I missed the ball by 2 or 3 feet and went over," he said. "We caught three balls and I told the guys I was going to go for the cycle. Dude, they were really holding onto me." In the first round, Bautista hit 11, Trumbo seven and Fielder five.
He had only received sporadic opportunities to play, not regularly but coming off the bench. Canó homered versus Lance McCullers Jr. in a 4–1 loss to the Houston Astros on April 18, 2018, to give him 302 for his career, and pass Hornsby for second place all-time among second basemen. On April 29, Canó hit his 100th home run as a member of the Mariners, versus Josh Tomlin in a 10–4 victory over the Cleveland Indians.
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In 2017, Canó was named the captain of the Dominican Republic team. After going 3–0 in the first round, the Dominican Republic lost its first game to Puerto Rico which ended their streak of 11 straight wins dating back to the 2013 World Baseball Classic. The team failed to advance to the championship round and Canó finished 6-for-20 (.300) with a home run and 3 RBIs. On November 18, 2020, Canó was suspended for 162 games after testing positive for Stanozolol in violation of MLB's performance-enhancing drugs policy, rendering him ineligible for the entire 2021 season. On May 2, the Mets designated Canó for assignment after he batted .195 with one home run in 41 at bats.
Derek Jeter‘s bunt single in the third inning of the Yankees’ 1-0 win over the Rays yesterday raised his hit total to 3,004. He is three hits shy of Al Kaline, who is in 26th place on the all-time list.. Yesterday’s game time of two hours and 11 minutes tied for the Yankees’ shortest this season with the April 27 game against the White Sox at the Stadium. On May 13, 2022, Canó signed a major league contract with the San Diego Padres.
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