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share-square-59221 The Rangers selected the contract of left-hander Hyeon-Jong Yang from the alternate training site on Monday afternoon. Yang was available for Monday night’s series opener with the Angels at Globe Life Field. Texas signed Yang on Feb. 12 from the Kia Tigers of the Korean Baseball Organization. He started 324 of his 425 career appearances in the KBO, posting a 4.70 ERA and 1.42 WHIP in 2020. He’ll provide a lot of length for the Rangers out of the bullpen, especially after pitching 172 1/3 innings in 31 KBO starts last year. “We've always had our eye on him, all spring I think he pitched really well,” Rangers manager Chris Woodward said. “We like what we have with him. He's an older guy who knows how to pitch and throws all of his pitches for strikes. We can trust him. He can go out and give you length. The stuff itself played better than maybe we anticipated as a low 90s fastball, but really played up an ability to throw every other pitch in the strike zone.”
Apr 15, 2021 On this date in Texas Rangers history, Ian Kinsler had a cycle for the ages at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. The game was on April 15, 2009, against the Baltimore Orioles, and it just happened to be Jackie Robinson Day around Major League Baseball. Everyone wore Robinson’s No. 42 on the back of their jersey, and while doing so, Kinsler accomplished not just hitting for the cycle, but something rare in MLB history — a six-hit cycle. First, the cycle. Kinsler doubled in the first inning, homered in the third inning, singled twice in the fourth inning off two different pitchers, and then finally got the elusive triple in the sixth inning. He wrapped up his game with a double in the eighth inning.