For what it’s worth, that headline is mostly tongue-in-cheek. In a tied game in the top of the seventh against a legendarily bad Orioles team, the Rangers finally pushed Alex Cobb and his changeup of death out of the game and turned to Ryan Rua in Carlos Tocci’s spot with lefty reliever Tanner Scott on the mound and two on, one out.
Rua, baseball’s version of an indestructible cockroach for his ability to hang onto a roster spot despite minimal product, hit the first pinch hit home run with at least one runner on base for the Rangers since 2013.