Yu Faces Hitters For 1st Time Since August
Rangers ace Yu Darvish faced hitters for the first time since last August at spring training, throwing 30 pitches against his teammates during batting practice on Wednesday.
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Rangers ace Yu Darvish faced hitters for the first time since last August at spring training, throwing 30 pitches against his teammates during batting practice on Wednesday.
Rangers ace Yu Darvish has been cleared to start his offseason throwing program.
Ace pitcher Yu Darvish and first baseman Prince Fielder were among the players reinstated Monday, giving the Rangers a full 40-man roster
When Derek Holland took the mound Tuesday night, he became the 60th player that the Texas Rangers have used this year, breaking a tie for the most in a single season in major league history.
Jon Daniels stopped short of ruling Yu Darvish out for the season, but the Rangers General Manager did say the team's ace wouldn't return until "everything is clear".
Robbie Ross took another shot as a starter for the Texas Rangers with ace Yu Darvish sidelined by elbow inflammation. It didn't go well.
Rangers ace Yu Darvish has mild right elbow inflammation that isn't a long-term concern, although there is no timetable for his return to the Texas rotation.
The Texas Rangers have optioned right-hander Nate Adcock to Triple-A Round Rock, making room on the roster for the expected return of Robbie Ross.
Texas placed its ace from Japan on the 15-day disabled list Wednesday night, a day before his scheduled start against Tampa Bay. He will have an MRI on Thursday.
Yu Darvish couldn't command his pitches, and that was a recipe for disaster. He lasted only 4 innings on Saturday night.
Yu Darvish struck out eight batters in seven innings and J.P. Arencibia had a tiebreaking two-run single for the Rangers in a 4-2 victory over the Yankees on Monday night.
Brett Gardner hit a tiebreaking homer off Darvish, and the Yankees beat the Rangers 2-1 Wednesday night in a rain-shortened game stopped in the fifth inning under bizarre circumstances.
With Yu Darvish on the mound, the Rangers are looking to avoid their longest skid in 11 seasons in Friday night's series opener in Toronto.
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The slumping Rangers have hit the bottom. In all of baseball. Texas has the worst winning percentage in the big leagues after losing three straight games to the Astros.
Yu Darvish was struck in the head by a ball during a throwing session in the outfield while the Texas Rangers took batting practice Tuesday.
The Texas Rangers are currently fighting off the Houston Astros for last place in the AL West. But believe it or not, a number of things have gone WELL for the Rangers in 2014.
The players for the 2014 MLB All-Star Game have been selected, and two Rangers are on the AL roster this year. Check out the full list of all-stars for both the AL and the NL.
The star pitcher allowed just four hits over eight sharp innings and the Texas Rangers beat Minnesota 5-0 on Saturday.
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.
When you consider the epic disaster the 2014 season has been, the Rangers need to start planning for the future. And there's no more critical building block for the future of this franchise than Yu Darvish.
Yu Darvish gave the injury-riddled Texas Rangers a nice send-off on an important road trip that includes all three teams above them in the AL West standings.
Darvish struck out 10 in his six-hitter, Shin-Soo Choo broke a long hitless streak with a three-run double, and the Rangers beat the visiting Marlins 6-0 Wednesday night.
Yu Darvish pitched his first complete game, Shin-Soo Choo broke a hitless streak with a three-run double, and the Rangers beat the Marlins by a score of 6-0 on Wednesday night.
The biggest issue for the Rangers has been the number of players, specifically pitchers, that have been sent to the DL or even written off for the entire season.
