Remember when the Texas Rangers started playing in their brand new stadium but no one was there to see them play because it was 2020? And remember when they were like, “yeah, let’s just hold the World Series here in front of six dozen fans?” Weird times. More recently, Bobby Witt Jr. ended as runner-up in the 2024 Home Run Derby.
With two more Spring Training games on the bill, Surprise stadium mates Kansas City and Texas will play at Globe Life Field in Arlington tonight, in a simulacrum of an early season game—replete with lineups that look close to normal and everything.