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Wednesday 21 august 2019

RANGERS RALLY

In this Friday, April 26, 2019
file photo, Milwaukee Brewers
center fielder Lorenzo Cain (6)
catches a ball hit by New York
Mets’ Todd Frazier for an out
during the second inning of a
baseball game in New York.
Associated Press
Home run

robbers get

praise - and

swag for

spectacular
plays

By KRISTIE RIEKEN
AP Sports Writer
It was late in the 2015
season when Baltimore’s
Manny Machado smoked
a pitch from Tampa Bay’s
Chris Archer into center
field at Camden Yards.
Kevin Kiermaier sprinted
to the wall, turned and
leaped high above it be-
fore reaching back and
snatching the ball . He
banged off the wall and
landed on his feet with the
ball firmly planted in his
glove for the out. The play
sent a dejected Machado
back to the dugout and
left a stunned Archer simply Rangers scratch past Angels
mouthing, “Wow.” Archer,
now with Pittsburgh, was
so grateful for Kiermaier’s in 11 innings
extraordinary effort that he
searched for a fitting way
to thank his center fielder
for keeping that run off the Texas Rangers’ Isiah Kiner-Falefa (9) and Scott Heinemann
board. He found it by com- celebrate after Kiner-Falefa hit a run-scoring single in the 11th
missioning a painting of the inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels in
catch, which he presented Arlington, Texas, Monday, Aug. 19, 2019. The Rangers won 8-7.
to Kiermaier at spring train-
ing the next year. Associated Press
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