Cespedes Retains Home Run Derby Crown
Yoenis Cespedes became the first repeat winner of the All-Star skills contest in 15 years, powering his way past Cincinnati's Todd Frazier 9-1 in the final round on Monday night.
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Yoenis Cespedes became the first repeat winner of the All-Star skills contest in 15 years, powering his way past Cincinnati's Todd Frazier 9-1 in the final round on Monday night.
Sometimes a team's best players don't make the All-Star team. Here are the American League's mid-season team MVPs.
Texas manager Ron Washington is convinced that the Rangers will play better, even though they are now two games under .500 and nine games behind the Athletics.
Darvish gave up a career-high tying seven runs in 5-plus innings -- his shortest outing in nearly two months -- and the A's beat the Rangers 10-6.
Donnie Murphy homered twice, Colby Lewis won for the first time in more than three weeks, and the Rangers beat the Athletics by a score of 14-8 on Monday night.
Yoenis Cespedes and Eric Sogard had two-run hits in the third, Jesse Chavez allowed one hit in seven scoreless innings, and the A's completed a sweep with a rout of the Rangers.
Martin Perez saw his streak of 26 consecutive scoreless innings end as the A's beat the Rangers, who have now lost three straight games for the first time this season.
Martin Perez pitched his second consecutive shutout to extend his scoreless innings streak to 26 and the Texas Rangers wrapped up a three-game sweep of the Oakland Athletics with a 3-0 victory Wednesday.
Michael Choice singled in the go-ahead run in the ninth inning, and the Rangers rallied for the second night in a row to beat the Athletics by a score of 5-4 on Tuesday night.
It's uncertain if leadoff hitter Shin-Soo Choo will be available when the visiting Rangers try for a seventh win in eight games Tuesday night against the Oakland Athletics.
Donnie Murphy lined a go-ahead single up the middle with one out in the eighth inning, and the Rangers rallied from an early three-run deficit to beat the Athletics 4-3 on Monday.
Mitch Moreland returned to the Texas lineup from a side injury and singled home two runs during a five-run sixth inning as the Rangers defeated the Athletics 6-2 Monday.
The Texas Rangers announced on Tuesday that the club has acquired outfielder Michael Choice and infielder Chris Bostick from Oakland in exchange for outfielder Craig Gentry and pitcher Josh Lindblom.
There's a surprise entry in the Nelson Cruz sweepstakes, and it's the Oakland A's. The Mariners, Mets and Phillies are among the other teams in pursuit of the free agent slugger.
Winning the AL West is out of the question for the Rangers. Now, the Wild Card is slipping away as well.
The Rangers better start paying attention to that tight AL wild card race, because their chances for the AL West title are pretty slim after the Athletics won 5-1 on Sunday.
Jarrod Parker got plenty of home-run help and pitched his way into Oakland's record book, and the surging Athletics pulled into a tie atop the AL West with Texas by overpowering the Rangers 11-4 on Wednesday.
The Texas Rangers moved back into sole possession of first place in the AL West with a 4-1 victory over the Oakland Athletics Tuesday.
The A's beat the Rangers 4-2 in the first game of the three game series on Monday afternoon. The difference was a home run by Coco Crisp, that barely touched the left field foul pole.
Adrian Beltre led off the bottom of the ninth for Texas with a home run to beat the Los Angeles Angels 2-1 on Wednesday night, completing a three-game series sweep in which the Rangers won each on game-ending homers.
Oakland's second-year slugger won baseball's Home Run Derby with a dazzling display of power Monday night, becoming the first player left out of the Midsummer Classic to take home the crown.
The Rangers grabbed a 4-3 victory against the A's on Thursday afternoon, giving them three wins in a four-game set and putting them within one game of Oakland in the division.
The Texas Rangers finally find their bats and rally back to beat the Oakland Athletics Wednesday night in Arlington.
There's an old saying in baseball that you can't win a division in April, but you sure can lose one. However, in the Rangers case, there's a history here that says the month of June can become this team's albatross.
Yu Darvish was tagged for five runs, the Texas Rangers offense was limited to three hits and the AL West-leading Oakland Athletics defeated the Rangers 6-2 on Tuesday night.
