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The Texas Rangers Major League Baseball team has played in Arlington, Texas, since 1972. The team began in 1961 as the Washington Senators, an American League expansion team based in Washington, D.C., before relocating to Texas. Since that time, over 1,200 players have competed in at least one game for the Senators/Rangers.
4 [n 2] May 8, 2012: Baltimore Orioles: Most home runs in an inning Carl Everett: 2* [n 3] July 26, 2002: Oakland Athletics: Most home runs in an inning Adrián Beltré: 2* [n 3] August 22, 2012: Baltimore Orioles: Most RBI in a game Iván Rodríguez: 9: April 13, 1999: Seattle Mariners: Most total bases in a game Josh Hamilton: 18 [n 4] May 8 ...
Barfield was a Texas League All-Star and finished with a 9–9 record with a 2.88 earned run average (ERA). [4] He made his MLB debut in 1989. He appeared in four games for the Rangers that year, two of them starts, and he gave up eight earned runs in 11 + 2 ⁄ 3 innings. The next year, he appeared in 33 games, all as a relief pitcher. [5]
Pitcher: Gastonia Rangers: Texas Rangers: cardiomyopathy, Supac use was a contributing factor 1990 [102] Victor Sanchez: 20 Pitcher: Leones del Caracas: Seattle Mariners: struck by a boat while swimming 2015 [2] Fausto Segura: 23 Pitcher: Auburn Doubledays: Washington Nationals: motorcycle crash 2020 [103] Bill Seinsoth: 22 First baseman ...
Tampa Bay defeated Texas 5–2, in a one-game playoff to clinch the wild card spot. [1] B The Rangers finished the season with an identical 90–72 record with Houston atop the American League West. Due to the Astros winning the season series 9 games to 4, the Astros were awarded the American League West title and the Rangers a wild card spot.
In 2001, he became the Rangers' closer and amassed 28 saves in a season that culminated in the Rangers naming him the club's Pitcher of the Year. Over the three years from 1999 through 2001, he totaled 17 wins , 32 saves , and a 3.27 ERA in 228 2 ⁄ 3 IP in 196 games.
Kern and Larvell Blanks were traded to the Rangers for Bobby Bonds and Len Barker on October 3, 1978. [9] He was dominant from the moment he arrived in Texas.He was 10–2 with a 1.48 ERA and sixteen saves at the 1979 All-Star break to earn his third consecutive selection to the AL squad.
That year the Texas Rangers held the first overall pick, having the worst record in baseball the previous strike-shortened season at 54–100. He was the first player selected in the 1973 amateur draft by the Rangers and received a $125,000 ($857,946 today) signing bonus, the highest bonus ever given to a draft pick at the time, and a free ...