Old Goat Andrew McCutchen Homers for Rangers
As Texas Rangers were beating the pants off of Kansas City Royals, wily veteran smoked an opposite-field home run.
Don't tell Andrew McCutchen that he's too old to play a young man's game. McCutchen, who signed a minor-league deal with the Texas Rangers, decided to show those young whippersnappers a thing or two on Wednesday night. The Rangers were beating the pants off of the Kansas City Royals when McCutchen stepped up to the plate in the bottom of the seventh inning.
McCutchen took a four-seam fastball and smacked it right over the right-center field wall for a three-run homer. Danyer Cueva and Kyle Higashioka scored ahead of McCutchen. Rangers Roundtable reporter Kane McCutchen will have full coverage of Wednesday night's Cactus League game against the Royals on Thursday morning.
But let's just focus on McCutchen a bit. Here's a guy who has played 17 MLB seasons, most of those (12 to be exact) with the Pittsburgh Pirates . For some of the teams he played on in Pittsburgh, he was a big reason that fans even came out to watch that lowly franchise play.
McCutchen has 332 career major-league home runs to his name. He has other accolades, too, that he's collected through a long career in the majors. Now, with the Rangers signing him, he's getting another chance to show what he can do.