Just five months ago, we were left wondering if Rangers outfielder Wyatt Langford was going to make the team after tearing up the minor leagues in a short sample size the same year he was drafted.

Nearly half a year later, on Tuesday night at Globe Life Field Wyatt Langford delivered the first walk-off grand slam by a rookie in Rangers history to lift Texas past the Yankees by a score of 7-4.

“I saw a guy that was very poised,” Rangers manager Bruce Bochy said after the game. “He’s come through a few times like that, we had the right guy up there.

Langford’s poise at the plate is a theme that continues as once again he watched both the first and fourth pitches be called for strikes despite appearing clearly out of the zone.

“I don’t know, I think he’s getting used to it” Bochy added. “I think he’s probably still leading the league in balls being called strikes on him”.

Despite where the first and fourth pitches were, Langford took the seventh pitch of the at-bat and blasted it 109.7 MPH off the bat and into the second deck of the left field seats at Globe Life Field.

With his walk-off salmi, Langford becomes the seventh youngest player in MLB history to hit a walk-off grand slam and the youngest American League player to accomplish the feat.

For the Rangers, it marked just the eighth regular season grand slam in franchise history and the first since Marlon Byrd did it back on August 8th, 2008.

It’s the MLB high-tying 9th walk-off victory of the season, one-third of those coming off the bat of Langford, something Bruce Bochy says is a testament to his performance in clutch situations.

“I think that’s not something that shows up on a spreadsheet, the guy that has a knack for a big hit or knows where an RBI is. Guys that become better hitters with the game on the line and he has shown that over his career here.

Not only does Wyatt Langford seem to become a better hitter in the clutch but so does the entire Rangers roster, something that even they can’t explain.

“We’re scratching our heads too” Bruce Bochy said when talking about how the team always seems to find a way to win close games.

“We’d love to get it going earlier trust me, it would be a lot easier on all of us but I’ll keep saying it this way, you play nine and you keep fighting”.