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Tom Dart at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas

Dingers, D-Backs and Dubya: an unlikely World Series begins in Texas

The Rangers’ Adolis García celebrates after hitting a game-winning home run against the Diamondbacks during the 11th inning of Friday’s Game 1 of the World Series.
The Rangers’ Adolis García celebrates after hitting a game-winning home run against the Diamondbacks during the 11th inning of Friday’s Game 1 of the World Series. Photograph: Jerome Miron/USA Today Sports

With one of the most conservative fanbases in Major League Baseball, there could only be one choice to throw out the ceremonial first pitch as the Texas Rangers returned to the World Series for the first time since 2011.

The toss from the Dallas librarian and former Rangers co-owner was so low that not even a hall-of-famer, former catcher Iván ‘Pudge’ Rodríguez, could grab it before it scuffed the dirt.

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