Jeffrey Springs

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The Rangers spent most of Sunday afternoon playing a neatly stitched baseball game in San Diego. Then everything unraveled.

Four pitchers combined for the shutout against the Padres and Beltré surpassed George Brett for 15th place all-time with 3,155 hits.

It's a strange thing to see a generation pass. In baseball, it can mean the slow countdown of former Montréal Expos until there is one. Bartolo Colon is that one — and we may be witnessing his finale

Jeffrey Springs was scheduled to pitch the first inning for Texas on Saturday night, though it was still undecided a few hours earlier whether he'd approach the mound from the dugout or the bullpen

Thanks to two walks by Giants' reliever Sam Dyson in the 10th, the Rangers were able to come back and win 7-6.

"I didn’t even notice that happen. I just found out because you told me, but I don’t know. I'm always just ready, you know? Ready to catch the ball, and make the play.”

Texas' last gasp — given the elements and Aroldis Chapman's difficulties — had a surreal similarity to the 2016 night in the Bronx when the Yankees closer failed to shut the door.

“There’s a saying that Latinos use: ‘We work as hard as a donkey,’" Colon says. "I had that in my head because when Pancho died, I saw how hard he had worked. I thought: ‘I’m working hard, like him.'"