Joey Gallo hopes to play Saturday even though twisted his left ankle Friday night while swinging for an RBI single in the Texas Rangers’ 7-6 victory over the San Francisco Giants.
Gallo homered in the seventh and batted again with two outs in the eighth. He sent a broken-bat single into center field to trim the Giants’ lead to 6-4.
But as fans either watched the ball squirt into the outfield or the barrel of the bat fly toward first base, Gallo went down in the batter’s box and then hobbled badly to first base.