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Adrian Beltre Strikes Out, Putts The Ball Away
The Rangers had already clinched the division before last night’s game against the Brewers so Adrian Beltre was in high spirits—even after striking out in the fifth inning....

Rangers' Double Play Breaks Mike Scioscia's Spirit
Los Angeles Angels manager Mike Scioscia always looks like an anxious bloodhound, but his heart broke in half on TV after Texas Rangers pitcher Nick Martinez started a double play with a behind-the-back catch....

Carlos Beltran Put Eye Black On His Head To Make Fun Of Rougned Odor
Texas Rangers designated hitter Carlos Beltran showed up to the team’s Aug. 28 game with a new look, reminiscent of a different Carlos. As it turns out, Beltran didn’t grow some “hair” to fool anyone. He wanted to make a joke at the expense of teammate Rougned Odor....

Adrian Beltre Is Still Slapping Dingers From One Knee
Adrian Beltre is one of the most entertaining baseball players any of us will ever have the pleasure of watching. He’s done many great things on the field that I will remember fondly, but falling to one knee as he hits the goddamn hell out of a baseball will certainly go down as his signature move. ...

Rougned Odor Slaps Walk-Off Dinger, Stares Down Edwin Diaz
Rougned Odor spent the Rangers’ game against the Mariners tonight messing with Dae-ho Lee, hitting the ball over the field, and futzing around on the basepath. He capped it off with a walk-off home run, and because he’s Rougned Odor, he capped that off with a stare down and a little tiny baby bat fl...

Adrian Beltre Lovingly Messes With Switch Pitcher Pat Venditte
Ambidextrous relief pitcher Pat Venditte has been in Major League Baseball for about a year. He’s bounced back and forth between the show and the minors, and Venditte made his Mariners debut this evening. After starter Hisashi Iwakuma was chased after three innings, Venditte stepped in and pitched t...

Make Good Life Choices, Carlos Beltrán
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Jason Kipnis Messes With Rougned Odor, Delighting The Rangers Bench
Jason Kipnis turned a nice little double play for the Indians this evening, which started with tagging out a quickly approaching Rougned Odor. Kipnis got the forceout, made the throw under pressure, then came up ready to scrap with the known punch enthusiast. Well, not really....

Yu Darvish Dinged A Big Ole Donger
Yu Darvish hit his first career dinger tonight, sending a Tim Adelman pitch over the center field wall in the fifth inning. At the time of the homer, he had more stroked dongs than hits allowed, although the Reds put one on him shortly after....

Rangers Waive Josh Hamilton In Order To Try Again Next Spring
Josh Hamilton, with all of one minor-league at-bat in 2016, has been placed on unconditional release waivers by the Texas Rangers. No one is going to claim him; he hasn’t hit well or been healthy in a couple of years, and he’s still owed about $28 million this season and next. But this may not be th...

Don't Try To Surprise Adrian Beltre With A Beverage Shower Or He'll Fight You With A Broom
If you try to touch Adrian Beltre’s head, he’ll flip out. If you try to douse him in one or more jugs of celebratory post-game beverage, he’ll mount up, grab weapons, and ward you off with them....

Prince Fielder's Retirement Press Conference Was Sad As Hell
Rangers slugger Prince Fielder has been forced to retire from baseball at age 32. Fielder, who has been struggling at the plate this year, recently underwent his second spinal fusion surgery in the last three years, and doctors have told him that he is no longer physically capable of playing basebal...

Remember When Prince Fielder Slapped An Inside-The-Park Home Run?
According to Ken Rosenthal, the Rangers will announce tomorrow that Prince Fielder is going to retire. Fielder had neck surgery a few weeks ago, and it’s apparently going to keep him from playing again. He will retire with 319 dingers, exactly the same amount as his father Cecil had in his career....

The Battle Over The Rangers' Ballpark Scam Has Officially Begun
It is not unreasonable, I don’t believe, to portray the pending fight over a new $1 billion stadium for the Texas Rangers as a proxy war—or at least a referendum—over the public financing of stadiums in America. Here is every variable that should make sports fans recoil in horror at the now-accepted...

Elvis Andrus Pranks Michael Young With Mask, Almost Gets Punched
Former Texas Rangers infielder Michael Young was inducted into the team’s Hall of Fame Saturday, and as he drove around the field, a player in a Saw mask popped out of the dugout. As Young cocked his fist, everyone learned that he’s not a fan of clowns, or clown-like things....

Prince Fielder Will Miss The Rest Of The Season
Rangers DH Prince Fielder, who has been out since July 18 with neck troubles, will undergo surgery and miss the rest of the 2016 MLB season. Rangers GM Jon Daniels confirmed the prognosis to the Dallas Morning News this evening after Levi Weaver reported it earlier. ...

Innovative Boy At Rangers Game Uses Sunglasses To Pick, Eat Boogers
FSN reporter Emily Jones spoke with Olympic fencer Gerek Meinhardt at Thursday’s Texas Rangers game, but let’s talk about what happened in the background of that interview. A boy in a camo shirt discovered how to be an innovator....

Joe Girardi Played Himself
There was a very weird baseball game in New York last night. The Yankees led the Rangers 6-5 heading into the ninth inning of a game that had been waterlogged by rainstorms since the fifth. Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman entered the storm to try and close things out, but walked the first batter he f...

"Unprecedented" Clause In Rangers Ballpark Deal Will Sneakily Cost Taxpayers A Few More Hundred Million Dollars
The Texas Rangers are getting a new stadium, because duh, who wants to play in an obsolete 22-year-old ballpark? The official announcement said the costs of the billion-dollar stadium will be split right down the middle. “The deal is 50-50,” Arlington Mayor Jeff Williams claimed. “The city would put...

Rougned Odor Still Isn't Sorry
In the immediate aftermath of delivering what is perhaps the most iconic punch in baseball history, Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor was not sorry about slugging Blue Jays outfielder Jose Bautista in the jaw. What about now, though, after Odor’s served a seven-game suspension and had a few weeks ...