Texas Rangers outfielder Adolis Garcia had himself fairly a Saturday night time within the crew’s 18-3 win over the Oakland A’s.
Garcia hit three dwelling runs within the first 5 innings of the sport, after which added a pair of doubles in his remaining two plate appearances whereas additionally driving in eight runs.
It was not solely a profession night time for Garcia, it additionally put him in very unique firm.
He’s simply the fourth participant in main league historical past to hit three dwelling runs and two doubles in the identical sport, and the primary participant in American League historical past to ever accomplish it.
Rangers supervisor Bruce Bochy was particularly impressed with Garcia’s sport.
“What he did tonight, it is simply spectacular,” Bochy mentioned through MLB.com “It is enjoyable to observe nice athletes once they get locked in and have an evening like tonight. It was lots of enjoyable for all of us to observe that one.”
Whereas Garcia’s efficiency is the massive takeaway from Saturday’s sport, the sub-plot needs to be the scenario with the A’s. As a result of that crew is dangerous. With Saturday’s loss the A’s are 4-17 on the season and have already been outscored by 100 runs. That’s 50 runs worse than the subsequent worst crew, the Kansas Metropolis Royals, who’ve been outscored by 50 runs.
Whereas the A’s are within the basement of the Americana League West, the Rangers have climbed to the highest spot and enter play on Sunday with a 2.5 sport lead over the defending World Sequence champion Houston Astros.
