Adrian Beltre is absolutely on fire with the bat and could burn his way Friday night to baseball history and major league baseball’s iconic 3,000-hit milestone.
The Texas Rangers third baseman singled in the fifth inning Friday night, his second hit of the night, against the Baltimore Orioles to give him 2,998 for his career. The hit drove in Nomar Mazara, with the first of two doubles through five innings at Globe Life Park in Arlington.
Beltre was retired in the first inning Friday on a hard-hit ball to second base, but he got hit No. 2,997 in the third with a run-scoring single to center field to score Mazara.