The Rangers are getting creative with their promotions this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a callback to an iconic moment in club history, the team is giving away a replica blood-stained Nolan Ryan throwback jersey to fans in attendance for their May 29 game against the Royals.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The jersey harkens back to Sept. 8, 1990, when the Hall of Fame flamethrower pitched with blood dripping from his lip.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nolan Ryan of the Rangers pitches during a game at Arlington Stadium. Getty Images<\/p>\n
In the second inning that day, Ryan misplayed a sharp ground ball off the bat of the Royals\u2019 Bo Jackson.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The grounder ricocheted off Ryan\u2019s glove and into his face before getting the out at first.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But Ryan didn\u2019t let a little blood take him out of the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ryan stayed on the mound, throwing seven scoreless innings, with the red blood stains on his chest, adding to his legend and giving the franchise a unique promo opportunity decades later.\u00a0<\/p>\n
MLB\u2019s all-time strikeouts leader will also be honored with a bobblehead giveaway of his iconic on-field fight with Robin Ventura on July 20, 1993, against the White Sox.<\/p>\n
On May 29, 2026, when the Rangers face the Royals at Globe Life Field, all fans who attend will receive a replica blood-stained Ryan throwback jersey. MLB.com<\/p>\n
Rangers star Nolan Ryan hits Robin Ventura of the White Sox after Ventura charged the mound, in Arlington, Texas. AP<\/p>\n
A 1965 draft pick and member of the 1969 Miracle Mets, Ryan, born in Refugio, Texas, played the final five years of his 27-season big league career with the Rangers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In 1989, Ryan made his eighth and final All-Star team of his career at 42 years old, as he posted a 3.20 ERA over 32 starts with Texas.<\/p>\n
He had his No. 34 retired by the Rangers in 1996 and was inducted in the National Baseball Hall of Fame three years later.<\/p>\n
After his playing days, Ryan served as the Rangers\u2019 president and CEO for six seasons (2008-13).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rangers are getting creative with their promotions this season.\u00a0 In a callback to an iconic moment in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,4,18917,149,185,4298,1567,69,3240],"class_list":{"0":"post-565386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas-rangers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-nolan-ryan","11":"tag-rangers","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sports-entertainment","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-texas-rangers","16":"tag-texasrangers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116049728209601344","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}