Rangers' Rougned Odor becomes first player in history to accomplish this feat

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USA TODAY Sports' Bob Nightengale breaks down how players and teams fared at the MLB trade deadline. Texas Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor might be the last player you might expect to set a record with walks, but he did just that on Thursday night. In a 17-8 win against the Orioles, Odor became the first player in baseball history to walk five times – with none of them intentional – and hit a home run in the same game. The 24-year-old has walked just 118 times in his 625-game major league career. In 2016, Odor became the second player to ever hit more than 30 home runs and walk less than 20 times in a season. Odor walked in each of the first four innings on Thursday, homered in the sixth

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