Adrian Beltr茅 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 .
Beltr茅 will be accompanied by three other former Rangers in the Hall of Fame, pitchers Fergie Jenkins and Nolan Ryan and catcher Iv谩n Rodr铆guez, at Globe Life Field on Tuesday night. Beltr茅 is set to be enshrined in Cooperstown on Sunday.
The 45-year-old Beltr茅 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.
On July 30, 2017, Adrian Beltr茅 became the first Dominican-born player to reach 3,000 hits!
— MLB (@MLB)
He will be inducted into the with Todd Helton, Joe Mauer and Jim Leyland on July 21 on .
A four-time All-Star who won five Gold Gloves, Beltr茅 finished with 3,166 hits and 477 home runs. His 2,759 games played at third base are fewer than only Brooks Robinson鈥檚 total. He hit for the cycle three times, the last at age 36.
for Beltr茅 came in a home game on July 30, 2017, only minutes after Rodr铆guez had finished his Hall of Fame induction speech in Cooperstown.
Rodr铆guez and Beltr茅 are All-Star ambassadors this week, and Beltr茅 was the manager of the American League team in over the weekend.
Beltr茅 is about to join Rodr铆guez 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.
