Nick Martinez was the star for the Texas Rangers on Tuesday, tossing two scoreless innings on only 22 pitches. Eighteen of those were strikes, and the one hit he allowed was quickly erased by a double play.
Checking in next in the star pecking order in the sloppy 8-4 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks was Isiah Kiner-Falefa, a fourth-round pick in 2013 from Mid-Pacific Institute in Hawaii.
He hit a two-run homer, which doesn’t sound all that great until taking a look at his minor-league stats. Kiner-Falefa has never homered in 1,212 at-bats.