Rangers Reliever Jeremy Jeffress Was Arrested For DWI, And He Pissed His Pants
(Dallas News) — Texas Rangers relief pitcher Jeremy Jeffress was arrested early Friday on a DWI charge, according to Dallas County.
He was stopped about 2:30 a.m. in Uptown, in the 2400 block of Mahon Street near Maple Avenue and Cedar Springs Road, after he changed lanes without signaling and almost hit a car, police said.
An officer reported Jeffress’ breath smelled like alcohol and his eyes were “bloodshot, watery and glassy,” the warrant says. He told the officer that between 12:15 and 1:15 a.m., he had three or four cups of Hennessy cognac mixed with Coca-Cola.
During sobriety tests, he could not keep his balance or stand on one leg, an affidavit said. He also urinated on himself.
TOUGH break for Texas Rangers reliever Jeremy Jeffress here. I’m not sympathizing with a dude who got drunk and thought it was a good idea to drive after, but hear me out. Texas Rangers relief pitcher gets arrested — not a story. Texas Rangers reliever gets arrested for driving drunk — not really that much of a story. Texas Rangers reliever gets arrested for driving drunk, and then pisses his pants — that’s a story. He was so close to getting out of that one, too.
Assuming he remembers that night at all, imagine sweating it out, and reading that police report, thinking there’s no way that detail gets included, and being like, “Arrested, yup. DWI, shit, okay. Breath smelled, not ideal. Bloodshot, watery, glassy eyes, par for the course. Couldn’t balance, that’s a bad look. Oh, and he pissed his pants, FUCK.” Almost made it out of there with just the DWI.
The Rangers actually have the worst bullpen in the American League (4.76 ERA), and the 27th worst out of 30 major league teams, but Jeffress, who the club acquired to fix that problem on August 1, in the same deal that brought Jonathan Lucroy to Texas, has underperformed since joining the team. Jeffress has appeared in 9 games so far for the Rangers, and has allowed four earned runs in nine innings, while walking five and striking out six. Jeffress is under team control through the 2019 season, so I doubt this means the end for him in Texas, but this is only the beginning of the pants-pissing heckling that he’s going to receive from road crowds.
