NEW YORK — Yankee Stadium will always be special for Jack Leiter. The Rangers right-hander, son of Yankees and Mets great Al Leiter and Anthony Volpe’s former high school teammate at Delbarton in Morristown, N.J., grew up going to games in the Bronx.

Jack Leiter pitched a phenomenal game, taking a no hitter 6.2 innings before giving up a solo homerun to end the no hitter and the shutout. Whats worse, Texas lost the game 3-4 after Robert Garcia gave up a three-run home run. Two of those runners were inherited, one of which Leiter struck out a number of times before he singled to get on base.

In his 12th career start, Rangers righty Jack Leiter finally reached a milestone that is a necessary step for anyone with any hopes of developing into a Major League ace: getting through six innings for the first time.

His stuff was electric against the Rockies. He fired a 99.7 mph fastball to Jordan Beck in the first, matching the fastest pitch of his career, per Statcast. Leiter threw first-pitch strikes to 16 of the 22 batters faced (72.7%), his second-highest first-pitch strike percentage of 2025 (75.0% on May 8 against the Boston Red Sox.

Shawn McFarland checks out what we learned about the Texas Rangers last week after they wrapped up a 5-2 homestand. Kennedi Landry writes that Jack Leiter was flirting with something special on Sunday before the finale was ultimately ruined late.

So, before Sunday’s series final vs. the Houston Astros melted down in tremendous fashion, Rangers right-handed pitcher Jack Leiter shoved. Like, flirted-with-a-no-hitter shoved, and if he’d kept his ledger clean and remained in the game, he might’ve had enough gas left in the tank to go the distance.

The Texas Rangers have never really been considered among the top echelon of teams that could be deemed as pitching factories. You know the ones? The Tampa Bay Rays and their plethora of top pitching prospects,