Watch Texas Rangers rookie Wyatt Langford become the first rookie in franchise history to hit a walk-off grand slam to beat the New York Yankees.
closer Clay Holmes 0-1 and taking another ball called a strike outside of the zone, Langford ripped a 3-2 slider 407 feet into the second deck in the left-field corner to lift the, who has been on the rough end of a plenty of controversial strike calls during his rookie season, couldn't help but let off some steam after home plate umpire Mark Wegner called Holmes' 80 mph sweeper a strike despite it being a few inches outside of the zone.
"No!' Langford said before taking a timeout with the Rangers trailing 4-3 with one out and the bases loaded."Sometimes I say stuff, not often. The second , I yelled pretty loud, 'no,'" he said. "I yelled. and I called the timeout, to kind of reset."to ever win a game with a walk-off grand slam. This was only the eighth time in regular season history that the Rangers have won with a walk-off grand slam, the first since Marlon Byrd on Aug. 4, 2008.
"I think everyone likes those moments," said Langford, who has a team-leading three walk-off hits. "I think you like them even more if you're able to come through. So it's really cool to be able to come through." Langford's three walk-off hits are the most by a Rangers player since Josh Hamilton had three in 2011.Rangers manager Bruce Bochy joked that Langford is able to handle the poor strike calls because he's gotten used to it.
"We had the right guy up there, good swings," Bochy said. "Its's all set up by some good at-at-bats before that. Carson getting it going there. But Wyatt, he has a knack for getting the hit when we need it in his young career. He's got some big ones already. This is part of his growth. You can tell he likes to be up there in this situation.""I really was just trying to do less, smaller swings, just to kind of simplify and hope they make a mistake," he said.
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