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Following their series victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Texas Rangers have returned home with the World Series trophy. The Rangers clinched their first MLB championship on Wednesday night after beating their opponents in five games. The champions were captured clutching the Commissioner's Trophy as they stepped off a plane in Texas two days later, and the celebrations are also continuing.

The New York Yankees have kicked off a road trip in disgusting style, as their hopes of making the playoffs fade. With the Angels up to bat leading 6-3, a slim chance of a comeback was shattered by the eighth inning. Tommy Kahnle of the Yankees scored a runner from second on a ground rule double, effectively ending any chance of a win. When Kahnle hurled his glove at a cooling fan in the dugout, destroying it, he may have pitched his most accurate pitch of the night.

Liam Hendricks returned to the majors after winning the White Sox's bizarre victory over the Detroit Tigers on Saturday. Yoán Moncada scampered home on a 10th-inning wild pitch that knocked out umpire Cory Blaser, bringing the Chicago White Sox to a 2-1 victory. Hendriks pitched a 1-2-3 seventh inning in his second game of the season after recovering from stage 4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Josh Smith, a Texas outfielder, was admitted to the hospital after being struck by a pitch in the Rangers' game against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday night. In the third inning, Smith, a left-handed hitter, was struck on the right side of his face by a 1-0 slider from reliever Danny Coulombo. Smith staggered to his left and collapsed to the ground in the batter's box, breaking his fall with his left hand while holding his face with his right hand.

Jacob deGrom took the field for the Texas Rangers on Thursday in perhaps the best news of spring training. Since committing a five-year, $185 million contract with the club back in December, the two-time National League Cy Young champion had been fighting exhaustion on his left side. The Rangers have been pinning their postseason hopes on the arrival of deGrom, but the 34-year-old suffered with shoulder injuries in 2022, causing concerns about his future availability. deGrom threw between 20 and 25 pitches off the mound on Thursday, which is a normal workload at the start of spring training.