The Washington Nationals’ three-game series in Arlington this weekend is their first with the Rangers in Texas since June 17-19 of 2005, as the Nationals wrote in the pregame notes, and it was a return to one of the teams he played for in the next-to-last season of his 16-year, big league career for Nats’ skipper Davey Martinez, who played 134 games for the Rangers back in 2000.
At that point The Ballpark in Arlington was the Rangers’ home, before they moved just one minute (or 0.3 miles) down the road to the new Globe Life Field in 2020.