Beltré set for ceremonial first pitch at All-Star Game alongside Rodríguez, Ryan and Jenkins

By: The Associated Press Posted: 7:27 PM CDT Monday, Jul. 15, 2024

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Adrian Beltré will throw out the ceremonial first pitch for the All-Star Game at the home of his final team, the Texas Rangers, five days before his induction as a first-ballot Hall of Famer.

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Beltré will be accompanied by three other former Rangers in the Hall of Fame, pitchers Fergie Jenkins and Nolan Ryan and catcher Iván Rodríguez, at Globe Life Field on Tuesday night. Beltré is set to be enshrined in Cooperstown on Sunday.

The 45-year-old Beltré played the final eight of his 21 seasons with the Rangers and made his only World Series appearance in his first year in Texas in 2011.

Adrián Beltré speaks to reporters on Saturday, July 13, 2024, before managing in the MLB Futures Game in Arlington, Texas. The former Rangers third baseman is an ambassador for the All-Star Game and will be inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., on Sunday, July 21. (AP Photo/Stephen Hawkins)

A four-time All-Star who won five Gold Gloves, Beltré finished with 3,166 hits and 477 home runs. His 2,759 games played at third base are fewer than only Brooks Robinson’s total. He hit for the cycle three times, the last at age 36.

The 3,000th career hit for Beltré came in a home game on July 30, 2017, only minutes after Rodríguez had finished his Hall of Fame induction speech in Cooperstown.

Rodríguez and Beltré are All-Star ambassadors this week, and Beltré was the manager of the American League team in the Futures Game over the weekend.

Beltré is about to join Rodríguez and the strikeout king Ryan as the only members of the hall wearing Rangers caps on their plaques. Jenkins’ plaque features a Chicago Cubs cap.