A's Slide Past Rangers To Get 2-0 Win
Yoenis Cespedes finished a home run shy of hitting for the cycle, and Bartolo Colon pitched eight scoreless innings, leading the Athletics past the Rangers 2-0 on Wednesday night.
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Yoenis Cespedes finished a home run shy of hitting for the cycle, and Bartolo Colon pitched eight scoreless innings, leading the Athletics past the Rangers 2-0 on Wednesday night.
Texas Rangers skipper Ron Washington suggested if Derek Holland struggled again on the mound he would be in line for a spanking.
The season to date in the AL West is best summed up by one word: fireworks. The contest has emerged early as a two team race between the starter-loaded Angels, and the absolutely electric bats of the Texas Rangers.
Texas left-hander Derek Holland pitched through the fatigue again Tuesday night, doing his part as the Rangers rebounded from a rout a night earlier, to beat the Athletics 6-3.
Ever the diplomat, pitcher Yu Darvish said that he'd love to make the AL team for the July 10 MLB All-Star Game in Kansas City. But he isn't sure that he has earned that distinction yet.
Texas Rangers slugger Josh Hamilton said that he will pass on this year's All-Star Home Run Derby after being offered the chance to captain the American League team.
Roger Clemens' defense may have regained the momentum in his perjury trial when a scientist testified that the government's physical evidence against the former pitcher could have been contaminated.
"This is a long season so you're going to have ups and downs. We're not doing the best right now but we're still in first place and we're still going out there and balling"
Keller was farm director of the expansion Washington Senators from 1961-62 and 1965-71, then held the same role from 1972-78 after the team moved to Texas and became the Rangers.
U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton almost made it sound like he was doing Roger Clemens' lawyers a favor when he ruled that they can't call Rep. Darrell Issa as a witness.
Jarrod Parker held Texas hitless until the eighth inning, and Brandon Inge drove in four runs in an eight-run second inning, as the A's pummeled the Rangers 12-1 on Monday night.
Rangers have played 54 games. In other words they're 1/3rd of the way through the regular season. Projections: Josh Hamilton will hit 63 homers and Matt Harrison will win 21 games.
This week should see a bunch of DL spots open up across the league. Mike Morse is back, and Desmond Jennings and Carlos Santana are among players making their return on Tuesday. As such, the waiver wire could be flush with talent – here are a few names to keep in mind as you make your adds and drops for the coming week.
Defense attorneys used a former baseball manager and a massage therapist to argue that Roger Clemens didn't change much physically late in his career.
Two catchers who were teammates of pitcher Roger Clemens said he played with integrity and refused to cut corners, the opposite of the image painted by prosecutors of a man who cheated to gain an edge and then lied about it to Congress.
Roy Oswalt is 34. A losing pitcher with the Philadelphia Phillies last year, he's been on the disabled list five times the last six years. And, at this point, he's a fly-ball pitcher.
Lawyers launched their defense of Roger Clemens with a pair of witnesses who described, in reverential terms, the famed baseball pitcher's work ethic in high school and college.
The Texas Rangers have added another arm to the already strong bullpen by signing free agent Roy Oswalt (9-10 with a 3.69 ERA in 2011) to a reported $5 million deal.
The government is expected to finish its perjury case against former major league pitcher Roger Clemens on Tuesday, and the defense should begin its case.
The Rangers are among four teams believed to be interested in acquiring free agent pitcher Roy Oswalt, along with the Orioles, Red Sox, Phillies and possibly even the Dodgers.
Bobby Patton is not some minority owner. Three of those owners wrote really big checks. Bobby Patton, a graduate of Fort Worth's Paschal High School, is one of those men.
Roger Clemens' genetic makeup helped make him one of the most successful pitchers in baseball history. Now prosecutors hope that Clemens' own DNA will help them convict him of a federal crime.
The Texas Rangers have acquired left-hander John Gaub on a waiver claim from Tampa Bay.
A federal judge says that if former MLB player David Segui defies a prosecution subpoena to testify at the Roger Clemens perjury trial, he had better run, "because the marshals will be after him."
