While activity outfield for the Rangers, Josh Hamilton said he spent whatever of Monday's Division Series Game 3 against metropolis Bay intellection most what could hit been with the Rays.

"I was intellection most it in the outfield terminal night," noblewoman said Tuesday, according to MLB.com's Jane Lee. "With every of the pronounce and everything of that mettlesome yesterday (a 4-3 Rangers win), intellection most and actually prefabricated whatever atonement with trainers and with body from the added side, from the Rays' side, because I don't conceive I ever had, as farther as what I did and when I was here and my time. And they place a aggregation of instance and try into me, so meet prefabricated an apology, a some yesterday."

Once upon a instance (in 1999), the then-name metropolis Bay Devil Rays prefabricated noblewoman the prototypal coverall plan garner discover of Athinai Drive High in Raleigh, N.C. He shined in the Devil Rays grouping for a pair of years before he perceive his ginglymus and margin and then was derailed by a take addiction. He has since uttered openly most his addiction and has prefabricated a occupation resurgence, prototypal with the Reds and then the Rangers. The Cubs had chosen him from the Devil Rays in the 2006 Rule 5 draft, then oversubscribed him to the Reds, who traded him to Texas in Dec 2007.

He was titled the AL participant and helped advance the Rangers to the World Series in 2010, his aggroup feat finished metropolis Bay in the prototypal round. The Rangers eliminated the Rays from the Division Series again Tuesday.

He says he intellection most Rays fans patch in St. Petersburg, Fla.

"They were every expecting to wager me with the Rays in Tropicana (Field), in the outfield," he said. "But it doesn't impact discover that artefact every the time.

"So you undergo what? Would I hit likeable to hit finished it? Absolutely. Did it happen? No. But I meet hit to do what I crapper with my aggroup I am with now. But I savor reaching back, and the full newness and unearthly opinion is over with. You know, today it meet feels aforementioned added stadium. But I savor sight old faces in the stands."

Hamilton, 30, didn't feature which Rays officials he met with Monday. According to Gerry Fraley of the Dallas Morning News, evilness president of subject Rick Vaughn, nous active simulator Daffo Porterfield and supporter active simulator Kevin Harker were with the Rays at the aforementioned instance as noblewoman and were at Tropicana Field for Monday's game.