Royals Top Rangers 4-1 To Sweep Series
Nick Tepesch pitched well for the Rangers into the seventh inning against the Royals. He just made a few too many mistakes in what turned into a 4-1 defeat.
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Nick Tepesch pitched well for the Rangers into the seventh inning against the Royals. He just made a few too many mistakes in what turned into a 4-1 defeat.
Derek Holland held the Kansas City Royals to one run over seven innings in his season debut, showing no linger effects from the knee injury that had kept him out all year.
Colby Lewis is racking up innings for the Rangers after missing last season. He pitched seven innings as Texas lost to the Royals by a score of 4-3 on Monday night.
Scott Baker went five innings in a spot start to win as a starter for the first time in more than three years, helping Texas beat the Royals by a score of 3-1 on Sunday to avoid a sweep.
The team with the worst record in the major leagues did little against Royals starter Jeremy Guthrie following Shin-Soo Choo's home run on his first pitch.
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Mike Moustakas went 3-for-3 and Yordano Ventura struck out six batters in six dominant innings, helping the Royals shut out the Rangers by a score of 6-0 on Monday night.
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Yu Darvish struck out four in two innings of the spring opener for Texas, and Prince Fielder hit a towering solo homer as the Rangers beat the Kansas City Royals 11-7 on Thursday.
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Garza pitched eight impressive innings for his first victory in six starts and the Texas Rangers kept close in the playoff race, beating the Kansas City Royals 3-1 Saturday night.
Neftali Feliz walked Alcides Escobar on four pitches with the bases loaded and two outs in the eighth inning Friday night, giving the Kansas City Royals a 2-1 victory over the Texas Rangers in the opener of an important three-game series.
Profar hit a tiebreaking home run with two outs in the eighth inning Sunday, lifting the Texas Rangers over the Kansas City Royals 3-1 on Sunday.
Robbie Ross hit David Lough with a pitch with the bases loaded to score the go-ahead run in the 10th inning Sunday and the Kansas City Royals beat the Texas Rangers 4-1 Saturday.
While Darvish is still the Texas ace, Holland struck out eight and allowed only one earned run over seven innings to wrap up his undefeated month.
Derek Lowe pitched three scoreless innings and Ian Kinsler had a two-run homer among his three hits, and the Rangers beat the Royals 8-2 on Monday night.
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Will Smith, one of several candidates for the fifth slot in Kansas City's rotation, outpitched two Texas starters already assured spots as the Royals and Rangers tied 5-all in nine innings Friday in their spring training opener.
Rangers GM Jon Daniels was talking Thursday about still wanting to re-sign Josh Hamilton. About an hour later, Hamilton was with the Angels. It has been that kind of offseason for Texas.
While waiting to find out whether there will be more talks with Josh Hamilton, the Texas Rangers agreed to a two-year contract with free-agent reliever Joakim Soria and reached a deal to keep catcher Geovany Soto.
Ian Kinsler hit a leadoff triple in the 10th inning and scored on Michael Young's single to lift the Rangers over the Royals 5-4 on Thursday night, coming back from a 3-0 deficit.
Adrian Beltre hit a three-run homer, Michael Young also went deep, and the Rangers held on for a 7-6 victory over the Royals to open a five-game lead in the division.
