Tigers Hold Off Yankees 3-2, Head To ALCS vs Texas
Tigers ace Justin Verlander will start the ALCS opener at Texas on Saturday night against the Rangers' C.J. Wilson.
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Tigers ace Justin Verlander will start the ALCS opener at Texas on Saturday night against the Rangers' C.J. Wilson.
Adrian Beltre most likely wouldn't be with the Texas Rangers had Cliff Lee agreed to a big contract and stayed last winter.
There's nothing funny about body-jarring crashes in baseball. But these are the playoffs, and home plate smashups are part of the game.
Game 1 of the ALCS is Saturday, either at the New York Yankees or home against Detroit. The Tigers and Yankees play the deciding game of their series Thursday night.
Rays pitcher David Price will get a chance to face the only AL opponent he's never beaten, when he goes against the Rangers in ALDS Game 3.
Mike Napoli had a tying two-run single before Tampa Bay starter James Shields threw two wild pitches to the same batter, and the Texas Rangers went on to an 8-6 victory over the Rays in Game 2 of the AL division series Saturday night.
There was cheering in the press box. That social faux paus is never allowed in Major League Baseball, and will generally get a stern voice over the intercom reminding members of the press such actions are not allowed. Today was different.
If you were to walk around Rangers Ballpark in Arlington Friday afternoon, you would swear time had reversed 6 months.
The Texas Rangers make to it the post season for the second year in a row, and as luck would have it- this year is a repeat of the 2010 ALDS match-up against the Tampa Bay Rays.
It seems like a repeat of the 2010 season, but this year the Texas Rangers begin the ALDS with home field advantage as they battle the Tampa Bay Rays.
The Texas Rangers had to win their last six games to earn home-field advantage in the first round of the playoffs.
Adrian Beltre, Mike Napoli and Nelson Cruz hit consecutive homers, and the Rangers got a 10-3 victory over the Angels on Tuesday night.
The Rangers had already won the AL West, so they had no excitement about knocking their division rivals out of the wild card race.
Coco Crisp hit a go-ahead single in the eighth inning, and the Oakland Athletics beat the first-place Texas Rangers 4-3 on Thursday to avoid a series sweep.
Rangers reliever Mark Lowe has returned to Arlington to have his injured left hamstring examined by team physician Dr. Keith Meister.
Homers by Ian Kinsler and Josh Hamilton lifted the Rangers to a win over the A's on Wednesday, reducing the team's magic number to three.
Beltre hit a three-run homer in the first inning, and the division-leading Rangers beat the Oakland Athletics 7-2 on Tuesday night.
Michael Young says he never really wanted to leave Texas, even after requesting a trade last winter.
The opener is the first of a seven-game homestand that runs from April 6-12, 2012 and features three games with the White Sox and four with the Seattle Mariners.
Slugger Nelson Cruz and submarine reliever Darren O'Day have been activated from the disabled list by the AL West-leading Texas Rangers.
Desmond Jennings homered on the first pitch in the bottom of the 10th inning and the Rays beat the Rangers 5-4 on Wednesday.
Beltre has been on the 15-day disabled list since July 23 with a strained left hamstring, but should start at third base this evening for a slumping Rangers team that has lost seven of their last 11 games.
A 24-year-old man is in fair condition at a Dallas hospital four days after he fell 21 feet from a stairwell while leaving a game at Rangers Ballpark.
The Rangers made a pair of trades to strengthen their roster, acquiring reliever Mike Gonzalez and bringing back catcher Matt Treanor.
Texas recalled Martin from Triple-A Round Rock on Tuesday after placing right fielder Nelson Cruz on the 15-day disabled list.
