On Wednesday evening, #VFL and current Texas Rangers first baseman J.P. Arencibia made his first-ever Major League pitching debut, tossing 1.0 scoreless ninth inning in the club's 10-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays.
Throwing in the 73 mile per hour range, Arencibia used 10 total pitches against his four batters faced, inducing two fly-outs after the Rays' Logan Forsythe hustled to beat an infield throw for the lone hit in the outing. Arencibia's debut now stands as the third occasion this season for Rangers Manager Ron Washington to call a position player to the mound.
When asked about the outing during postgame media availability, Arencibia responded saying he was just doing what he could to help the team.Â
Those were not knuckle balls just super slow gravity pitches... At 73 mph they have to drop.. #ThatWasFun
-- jp arencibia (@jparencibia9) August 14, 2014
Check out the recent coverage on Arencibia's outing:
- FOXSports.com: Arencibia, Claudio pitching bright sports for Rangers
- Dallas Morning News: Rangers' Miles Mikolas roughed up in loss to Rays; J.P. Arencibia pitches an inning
