Joc Pederson hit the most unlikely home run in of the season for the Rangers. The Designated “Hitter” with a .120 batting average, two home runs and just eight RBIs came up with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning and the Rangers trailing 5-4, and hit a home run.

It took only 114 games for Pederson to do anything productive, but he did. Then, he did the funniest thing of the night. He took two steps and yelled, “Nobody F-s with me.”

It was funny not because they captured him saying the F-word on live TV, but because his cockiness at that very moment was so misguided. Sorry, but you’re a .120 hitter. Every pitcher has F-ooled with you. Every pitcher has owned you. Usually when you yell that, it’s because someone tried to get one over on you. Sorry, Joc, but everyone has gotten one over on you this year.

How about from now on, you don’t F-ool with Rangers fans? Let’s hope that was finally the catalyst that makes keeping Joc Pederson on the bench palatable.

If it wasn’t the biggest home run of the year, it was certainly the most surprising. And it was just made the most satisfying win of the year more satisfying.

The Rangers cannot beat left-handed pitching and they were facing the of the best lefties in baseball in Max Fried. When the Yankees took a 3-0 lead, it looked like its was going to be one of those typical games where the Rangers would fold up their tents and go home early. Then they scratched out four runs in the second against Fried and the Yankees, who have the worst defense in baseball, and that is including the local Little League teams.

Of course, the Yankees would take back the lead, 5-4, two innings later on a Stanton home run. The Ranges didn’t score in the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, or eight innings. So, when Joc Pederson stepped into the plate to pinch hit in the ninth, with his abysmal season and the Rangers history of willful compliance, nobody in the world thought Pederson would homer.

He did. Then, the next inning. Josh Jung, hit a three-run homer in the tenth to win it in grand fashion. To beat the Yankeses is always enjoyable. To crush they hearts of millions of Yankees fans with a stunning defeat is even more satisfying.

To see Joc Pederson do it is really unbelievable.

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