Evening Is Full of Yankees Shots Ichiro Suzuki's homer, with two outs in the ninth, was the Yankees" fourth home run of the night. The most notable development concerning the Yankees on Tuesday night did not occur in the Bronx, or on a baseball field, or even in a training room, as so often has been their fate this season. It materialized over cyberspace, first in the form of a misguided Twitter post fired off by the team's most controversial player, and then in a scathing response by General Manager Brian Cashman, whose already waning patience with Alex Rodriguez was tested yet again. Rodriguez's decision to post a Twitter message saying that he had been cleared to begin a minor league rehabilitation assignment incurred the wrath of Cashman, who told ESPNNewYork.com during the Yankees" 4-3 victory over the Texas Rangers that he was furious at Rodriguez's presumptuousness and, with an expletive tossed in, that he should just shut up. Cashman did not immediately return a message left on his cellphone, and a team spokesman told reporters waiting outside the Yankees" clubhouse for him afterward that he had left for the night. It was, perhaps, his way of letting the forcefulness of his comment stand for itself, another moment of intense frustration with a player who - even from 1,100 miles away, in Tampa, Fla. - continues to agitate him and the organization. Already facing a possible suspension for being connected to an anti-aging clinic that has been accused of dispensing performance-enhancing drugs to baseball players, Rodriguez on Tuesday went rogue. Despite the Yankees" insistence that he had not been cleared by doctors to begin his rehabilitation assignment, Rodriguez took to Twitter to say that over the weekend he visited with Dr. Bryan Kelly, who performed his hip surgery and has been monitoring his recovery, and that Kelly, who is not affiliated with the team, had given him "the best news - the green light to play games again!" "You know what, when the Yankees want to announce something," they will, Cashman told ESPNNewYork.com. He added: "That's it. I'm going to call Alex now. Rodriguez's note overshadowed a thrilling ending, with Ichiro Suzuki blasting a two-out homer - the Yankees" fourth home run of the game - off Tanner Scheppers to propel the Yankees to victory on a night when the duel between the best Japanese pitchers in the majors never materialized. There was no reprise of Hiroki Kuroda's last matchup against Yu Darvish, when Darvish flummoxed the Yankees over eight and a third innings in a 2-0 victory last April 24 in Texas. Darvish labored while throwing 110 pitches in five and a third innings, allowing three home runs. The third, a leadoff shot by Jayson Nix, tied the score at 3-3 in the sixth. By then, however, Cashman had offered his withering rebuke of Rodriguez, and what would happen on the field seemed to pale in comparison to the latest distraction. It is possible that Cashman chose to lash out because this particular incident irritated him so, but it was more likely a culmination - or rather, a continuation - of years of exasperation, most of which followed the 10-year, $275 million contract that Cashman never wanted to give Rodriguez after he opted out of an earlier contract after the 2007 season. Rodriguez's frequent failures in the playoffs, his repeated links to performance-enhancing drugs, his numerous meetings with baseball's drug investigators, his association with various and sundry figures lurking on the periphery of the sport - it all accumulates, and the result is a further fraying of a relationship between team and player that is tense to begin with. Just within the last three weeks, Cashman said that he did not think Rodriguez could "live up to" his contract although he believed that Rodriguez would try to do so, and the managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner seemed to jab him, saying that Rodriguez sometimes disappointed them. The possibility also exists that Rodriguez's Twitter salvo was a calculated move, with Rodriguez's mentioning that he met with Kelly "over the weekend" dredging up old news and contradicting what Cashman said on Monday, that Rodriguez was moving closer to playing in a minor league game but that no starting date had been determined. Cashman might be angry that Rodriguez essentially started the clock on his rehabilitation assignment without the Yankees" approval. Players are permitted 30 days, and if starting on Tuesday Rodriguez were to spend longer than that, it is possible that they would be called on it. It also squashes the fantasy, at least for now, that Rodriguez would be medically unfit to play, and thus retire, which would allow the Yankees to collect insurance money on the bulk of his deal. Rodriguez is owed more than $100 million through the 2017 season. All of this tension obscures an important fact: the Yankees, pummeled by injuries, could stand to benefit from a healthy Rodriguez, whenever he comes back. "As far as I know, he is not cleared," said Manager Joe Girardi, who then referred to the trainer Steve Donohue. Stevie did not tell me he was cleared to play rehab games, so we'll find out. He added: "There's always a chain of command with injuries and there has to be. It goes from our doctors to our training staff and then it gets to me. I'm kind of low on the totem pole. Tom Pedulla contributed reporting.