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47-58 - Rangers enjoy 3-2 win over White Sox on night of firsts

The Texas Rangers scored three runs while the Chicago White Sox scored two runs.

Tonight, for the first time since April 8, 1986, when Will Clark and Robby Thompson debuted for the Giants, two first-round draftees debuted in the same game for the same team as Cole Ragans (2016, 30th overall) and Bubba Thompson (2017, 26th overall) became big leaguers for Texas.

What makes this an interesting case is neither Ragans nor Thompson arrive as part of the tippy-top of the farm system, which you might expect with former first-rounders. Ragans (12th in our community rankings) had to be rebuilt following two Tommy John surgeries and Thompson (15th) had to methodically work his way through the system while proving that he could be a baseball player rather than just an athlete.