Texas Rangers<\/a> (4-2) return to Arlington after winning both of their away series to begin the 2026 season.<\/p>\nFriday\u2019s contest will mark the Rangers\u2019 seventh opener at Globe Life Field and 55th overall since the franchise moved to Texas in 1972.<\/p>\n
For their first homestand, which is set to start Friday afternoon against the Cincinnati Reds, another North Texas sports star will be on the bump for the ceremonial first pitch.<\/p>\n
\nWho is throwing the first pitch at the Texas Rangers game? <\/p>\n
The ceremonial first pitch will be thrown by Dallas Stars goaltender and USA Hockey Olympic gold-medalist, Jake Oettinger. Otter will throw the ceremonial first pitch at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n
\nWhen is the first pitch for Rangers vs. Reds? <\/p>\n
First pitch is scheduled for 3:08 p.m. CT.<\/p>\n
\nTexas Rangers gameday timeline <\/p>\n
10 a.m. \u2013 Parking lots open at Globe Life Field11:50 a.m. \u2014 Texas Rangers Batting Practice12:00 p.m. \u2014 Public Gates Open12:50 p.m. \u2014 Cincinnati Reds Batting Practice1:50 p.m. \u2014 Grounds Crew Field Preparation2:15 p.m. \u2014 Budweiser Clydesdales on field2:43 p.m. \u2014 Cincinnati Reds Starting Lineup introductions2:48 p.m. \u2014 Texas Rangers Starting Lineup introductions2:58 p.m. \u2014 National Anthem \u2013 Neal McCoy3:00 p.m. \u2014 Ceremonial First Pitch \u2013 Dallas Stars goaltender Jake Oettinger \u2013 Hockey USA Gold Medalist3:03 p.m. \u2014 Umpires Meeting & Lineup Exchange at Home Plate3:06 p.m. \u2014 Rangers Take The Field3:08 p.m. \u2014 First Pitch, Rangers vs. Reds <\/p>\n
\nMore Rangers ball park fun! <\/p>\n
For more information about the entertainment and fun at the ball park, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Stars netminder will be on the bump before the Rangers’ first home game of the season. ARLINGTON,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-234103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}