Rocco, the No. 6 overall pick in the 2000 Draft and the 2019 AL Manager of the Year, is 16 years older than Dante, who hit .308 for the Eagles in 2021.
Player: Darren Baker, 2B, UC Berkeley
Relative:Dusty Baker Jr. (father, 19 MLB seasons/Astros manager)
No longer most famous for being rescued at home plate by J.T. Snow during the 2002 World Series while serving as a bat boy for his dad’s Giants club, Darren earned All-Pac-12 first-team honors for the Golden Bears this year.
Player: Casey Dykstra, CF, Azusa Pacific
Relative:Lenny Dykstra (uncle, 12 MLB seasons)
Two of Casey’s cousins were drafted, Cutter Dykstra (second round, 2008) and Luke Dykstra (seventh round, 2014), and both played professionally, although neither reached the Majors. But the most famous Dykstra is Lenny, a three-time All-Star center fielder and 1986 World Series champion with the Mets.
The Rangers are a relatively young organization since relocating from Washington to Arlington in 1972, and no Rangers team has hoisted the Commissioner's Trophy just yet. Texas doesn’t have the storied history of the Yankees or Cardinals, but it has managed to put together some great teams.
From back-to-back American
Apr 19, 2021
If the Texas Rangers would have had the Six Shooters on this date in franchise history, they would have gotten the workout of a lifetime.
The Rangers recorded their largest margin of victory in a game to that point, defeating the Baltimore Orioles by a score of 26-7 at The Ballpark in Arlington.
The game was on April 19, 1996, and the Rangers set franchise records for total runs, runs batted in (26), and runs in an inning (16 runs in the bottom of the eighth).
That 16-run eighth inning was the second-most runs scored by a Major League team in the game’s modern era (since 1900). The only team to score more runs in a single inning to that point was Boston, which scored 17 runs in the seventh inning against Detroit on June 18, 1953.