Texas Rangers at Chicago White Sox

Brandon Nimmo landed at the warning track Monday night at Rate Field, dropping to a knee before emphatically pumping his fist as he ran off the field. The Rangers' right fielder had just sucked the air out of the South Side crowd, robbing Andrew Benintendi of a game-tying, two-run homer in the bottom of the first inning of Texas' 11-2 win over the White Sox. Rangers starting pitcher Kumar Rocker left a 1-0 sinker over the heart of the plate, which Benintendi hit at 96.4 mph, per Statcast. The ball went a projected 353 feet, and would have been a homer in eight ballparks. “Nimmo with a huge rob of a home run, which is one of my favorite plays in the game,” manager Skip Schumaker said. “I’ve said it before, I think every fence should be like five feet, so there would be more of those, but that was a big play at the moment. … It was big because it would have been 2-2 then. If that's a home run, they put up a crooked number, and all of a sudden it doesn’t feel as good. It was just a really, really good play. Luckily, it stayed in the park and momentum stayed on our side." Nimmo, who has -3 outs above average and -4 defensive runs saved, made the catch of his life to prevent Benintendi's 14th home run of the season. “It wasn't hit so hard that I wasn't able to kind of get a beat on it,” Nimmo explained. “A few steps into it, I knew that I probably was going to have to make a play at the fence. I was able to time it up for the robbery. … There is a little bit of \[an art to robbing homers\