Jose Trevino went from preparing for a game in Double-A to playing twice in less than 24 hours for the Texas Rangers
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The rookie catcher’s single in the seventh inning tied Saturday’s game against the Colorado Rockies, and 39-year-old active career hits leader Adrian
Beltre put the Rangers ahead with a two-run triple in the eighth as they stopped
a seven-game skid with a 5-2 victory.
”I couldn’t tell you if I was more excited to get the tying RBI or my first hit, but I knew if I got the RBI, it’d be a hit,” Trevino said. ”It’s been
crazy, just trying to soak it all in and slow it down.”
Trevino was going through his pregame workouts Friday at Frisco, about 35 miles from the Rangers’ ballpark, when he got the late call-up to the big
leagues. Rangers starting catcher Robinson Chirinos was going to serve his
one-game MLB suspension for the scuffle after a home plate collision with
Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp on Wednesday night in Los Angeles.
Carlos Perez started Friday night behind the plate, but he injured his right ankle in the second inning, and Trevino quickly made his big league debut.
”No time to be nervous,” Trevino said.
When Perez got to the ballpark Saturday for a day game, he found out he was in the starting lineup. Perez went on the 10-day disabled list, and Chirinos was
still sore from the collision.
”He’s handled it great. To be forced into duty on a night when he came in as kind of an emergency,” manager Jeff Banister said. ”That at-bat at the end there
(Saturday) was tremendous. He needs to be proud of himself.”
Rougned Odor led off the Texas seventh with triple. He scored on a double by Isiah Kiner-Falefa, who came home when Trevino grounded a ball through the left
side of the infield to tie the game at 2.
Beltre, who has been on the disabled list twice this season because of a strained left hamstring, got the triple on a fly ball that went over the head of
right fielder Carlos Gonzalez and ricocheted off the bottom half of the outfield
wall. It was Beltre’s 3,095th career hit.
”As soon as I hit it, I knew it was enough to score the runs, so that’s all I cared,” Beltre said.
”Off the bat
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lucky that it didn’t go over the fence.”
Delino DeShields drew a leadoff walk against Harrison Musgrave (0-2), and went to third on Jurickson Profar’s single before the 38th career triple for
Beltre, who is in his 21st season. Pinch-runner Ryan Rua came home on Odor’s
sacrifice fly.
Jose Leclerc (2-2) struck out two in a perfect eighth and Keone Kela worked the ninth for his 15th save, the most in the majors without a blown chance.
Rangers starter Mike Minor struck out six while matching his season long with seven innings. He had a balk and a wild pitch, both playing into the Rockies
runs.
Ian Desmond walked in the second and advanced on a balk before a two-out single by Gonzalez. D.J. LeMahieu had a leadoff single in the sixth, and was at
third after a wild pitch before coming home on Nolan Arenado’s sac fly.
But Minor worked out of a bases-loaded jam in the seventh.
”To keep the score the way it was, to give our guys that little energy level to say `Hey, we’re still in this’,” Banister said. ”If we give up a couple of
runs there, it’s probably a little different situation.”
GETTING ON BASE
Rangers outfielder Shin-Soo Choo had a leadoff walk in the first, before adding two hits. He has reached base in 30 consecutive games for the longest
streak in the American League this season.
STARTING FREE
Colorado left-hander Kyle Freeland, who won all four of his interleague starts as a rookie last season, permitted two runs and eight hits in seven
innings.
”He’s made great strides. I think there’s a confidence level there to utilize a couple of different pitches,” manager Bud Black said. ”He’s limiting mistakes,
especially with runners on base. We’re seeing growth before our eyes.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Rangers: SS Elvis Andrus, out since fracturing his right elbow April 11, was moved from Frisco to Triple-A Round Rock. He could rejoin the Rangers as early
as Monday.
UP NEXT
RHP Yovani Gallardo, who has pitched for three different major league teams since leaving his hometown Rangers after the 2015 season, is expected to start
the series finale for Texas. He has been at Triple-A since signing a minor
league deal in April after being designated for assignment by Cincinnati. RHP
Jon Gray, with a 7.98 ERA his last six starts
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The Indianapolis Colts’ second choice for head coach could turn out to be even better than the first.
And Frank Reich has the Super Bowl championship gear to prove it.
Five days after New England Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels reneged on a deal to take the Colts’ job, Ballard hired Reich, the man who
outwitted McDaniels last week and helped lead the Philadelphia Eagles to their
first NFL title since 1960.
”Frank is a leader of men who will demand excellence from our players on and off the field,” Ballard said in a statement released Sunday. ”I look forward to
working with Frank to deliver a championship-caliber team to the city of
Indianapolis.”
Terms of the deal were not immediately available, but Reich is expected to be introduced at a news conference Tuesday.
Colts officials posted a photo of Reich signing the deal on the team’s website.
The move ends a search that spanned 41 days, included two coaching announcements and the embarrassment of McDaniels changing his mind Tuesday night
just eight hours after telling the Colts he’d take the job.
On Wednesday, Ballard answered questions for nearly 20 minutes before finishing with ”the rivalry is back on.”
By hiring Reich, another touted offensive coordinator and a potential leading candidate next season, only added another chapter to the long and bitter
series.
Exactly one week after backup quarterback Nick Foles executed an exquisite game plan to beat Tom Brady and the favored Patriots, the Colts brought back a
longtime assistant who spent two seasons working with Peyton Manning.
But this wasn’t just about sending a message.
”Frank has all the ingredients of a successful head coach: intelligence, innovation, character, organizational and leadership skills, and a commanding
presence,” team owner Jim Irsay said. ”He also has a stellar reputation, and his
myriad of life experiences and the people he has worked with make him the
perfect fit for us and our fans. I feel extremely fortunate and could not be
more excited for Colts Nation and the future of our franchise.”
It sure didn’t take long to make the decision.
Ballard interviewed the 56-year-old Reich on Friday, the day after Philadelphia held its victory celebration.
He replaces Chuck Pagano, who was fired hours after finishing the season with a 4-12 record and missing the playoffs for the third consecutive year.
Reich takes over a franchise that appears to have some key pieces in place – especially if Andrew Luck is healthy.
Luck missed the entire 2017 season after having surgery for a partially torn labrum in his throwing shoulder. He went on injured reserve in November because
of lingering pain in his right shoulder after he had started throwing a
football.
On Wednesday, Ballard said Luck still hasn’t thrown a football since October.
”He’s going to do everything right to get himself ready to play and I’m very confident, he’s very confident, that he’s going to come back and prove a lot of
people wrong
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The Colts also have a defense that showed steady improvement throughout the season, the No. 3 overall draft pick in April, nearly $80 million to spend in
free agency and a promising backup quarterback in Jacoby Brissett, who started
15 games in 2017.
And the Colts already have three assistants on Reich’s staff – probable defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus, Mike Phair and Dave DeGuglielmo. All three
agreed to join McDaniels’ staff in Indy and have been promised by Ballard that
they will remain on the staff.
Reich, meanwhile, returns to the franchise where he started his coaching career as an intern in 2006. He was named an offensive assistant in 2008,
succeeded Jim Caldwell as quarterbacks coach the next season and became
receivers coach in 2011.
In 2012, he coached the receivers in Arizona and then was hired as San Diego’s quarterbacks coach in 2013. The Chargers promoted him to offensive
coordinator in 2014 where he stayed until joining the Eagles in 2016.
Reich may be best known, however, for rallying the Buffalo Bills from a 35-3 deficit to a 41-38 overtime victory over the Houston Oilers in January 1993 –
the biggest comeback in playoff history.
Now, in his first head coaching job, he will be paired with the architect of the second-biggest playoff comeback, Luck.
”Frank Reich was with me at the end of my tenure with the Colts,” Hall of Fame coach Tony Dungy wrote on Twitter. ”He has a creative offensive mind. He’s
a great communicator and a high quality person. The Colts are in great
hands.”
Reich graduated from the University of Maryland where he was a backup to Boomer Esiason. He won the starting quarterback job as a senior and spent 14
seasons in the NFL playing for Buffalo, Carolina, the New York Jets and
Detroit.
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