Notes . . . and Supporting the Newberg Report.
Adrian Beltre is the first player since 1933 to hit for the cycle three times.
Rangers hitters have four of the last eight cycles in the big leagues.
Awesome, but not as important as Beltre’s club winning five of its last six, the lone aberration being the Cole Hamels start that Texas should have taken as well.
And, as Gil LeBreton (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) points out, ever since the Rangers dropped to a season-low eight games under .500 on May 3, they have a 44-37 record — while Houston is 42-40.
Beltre’s fifth-inning homer got me off the couch, but so did this tweet from ESPN analyst and recent Rangers managerial candidate Alex Cora: “The Rangers might be two games from the second wild card at the end of the night and just traded for an ace.”
They are.
And they did.
Mark your calendars, at least in pencil: We are planning to hold Newberg Report Night at the ballpark on Monday night, August 17. That’s just two weeks from now. As always, I expect we’ll have Jon Daniels for a pregame Q&A in the Hall of Fame theater, and I’ll announce our chosen charitable effort in the next couple days. Texas hosts Seattle that night.
More details on our event very soon.
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