NEW YORK — Alex Rodriguez’s last attempt to reach a major home run milestone was painful to watch. Remember? He had gotten to 499, in the summer of 2007, faster than anyone at the start of the season could have conceived was possible, even for him. He was about to turn 32 years old, and he was at the peak of his powers. He had hit 14 home runs during a torrid April, then five in May, then nine in June, and then — after he’d crushed 499, an eighth-inning two-run shot off the Royals’ Gil Meche on July 25 in Kansas City — seven in July. Thirty-five home runs, and August wouldn’t begin for another week. Surely, everyone thought, he’d become the 500 home run club’s youngest member well before the calendar’s page flipped.
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