Relaxed Rodriguez shrugs off previous playoff problems and produces

NEW YORK — This postseason could not be off to a better start for Alex Rodriguez, and he says the reason is simple.  Alex Rodriguez says he can just let it rip this postseason after a trying spring training and regular season. For the first time in what figures to be a Hall of Fame career—barring any voter backlash over his use of performance-enhancing drugs—the Yankees' third baseman said he entered this season with no expectations.   That's what happens when you have surgery on an ailing right hip, as he did this spring, and aren't even sure you'll be able to take the field, much less perform at the high level that has been your standard. "I remember a couple of hours after the operation, I asked if I was going to be able to play this year," he said after driving in three runs, including hitting the tying two-run homer in the ninth, as the Yankees outlasted the Twins 4-3 in 11 innings to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-fiv...