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| Rangers host A's in home finale |
MLB Baseball |
09/24/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - The Texas Rangers close out their 2008 home schedule with this afternoon's rubber match of a three-game series with the Oakland Athletics from Rangers Ballpark at Arlington. Texas, which is 39-41 on its home grounds so far this year, moved a half-game in front of the Athletics for second place in the American League's West Division with Tuesday's 6-4 triumph. Hank Blalock continued his torrid recent hitting by belting a two-run homer in the bottom of the seventh inning that snapped a 4-4 |
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| Blalock leads Rangers over A's in Arlington |
MLB Baseball |
09/23/2008 |
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| Arlington, TX (MySportsbook) - Hank Blalock hit the go-ahead, two-run homer in the seventh inning to give the Texas Rangers a 6-4 victory over the Oakland Athletics in the middle tilt of a three-game set. Marlon Byrd also drove in a pair of runs for the Rangers, who halted their five-game slide. Milton Bradley went 3-for-3, drove in a run and scored in the win. Starter Dustin Nippert lasted 6 1/3 innings and surrendered four runs on six hits but got a no-decision. Jamey Wright (8-7) took the win after rec |
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| Report: Mets to give GM Minaya four-year extension |
MLB Baseball |
09/23/2008 |
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| or the former Montreal Expos from 2002-2004. Despite being owned by the other 29 major league baseball teams and having a limited payroll, Minaya was able to lead the team to two 83-79 records before the team moved to Washington. After his playing career ended, Minaya served as a scout for the Texas Rangers from 1985 until the mid-1990s, when he joined the Mets' staff. He worked himself all the way up to assistant general manager behind Steve Phillips before leaving in 2002 to take the GM job with Montreal. |
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| Athletics resume series with Rangers in Arlington |
MLB Baseball |
09/23/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - The Oakland Athletics will attempt to keep up their strong late-season run when the red-hot club continues a three-game series with the struggling Texas Rangers tonight at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. Oakland has won eight of its last nine games and four straight contests following an extra-inning triumph over the Rangers in Monday's opener of this set. Travis Buck doubled in Cliff Pennington with the go-ahead run in the top of the 11th inning to lift the Athletics to a 4-3 victory. Pen |
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| The Buck stops with Oakland; A's stay hot with win over Rangers |
MLB Baseball |
09/23/2008 |
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| Arlington, TX (MySportsbook) - Travis Buck's RBI single in the top of the 11th pushed the Oakland Athletics over the Texas Rangers, 4-3, in the opener of a three-game series at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. Cliff Pennington led off the away 11th with a double to left off Luis Mendoza (3-8). After a one-out walk to Jeff Baisley, Buck singled through the hole on the right side of the infield to bring in the go-ahead run. Santiago Casilla worked around a lead-off single in the bottom half to notch his secon |
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| Lackey tries to pitch Angels to sweep of Rangers |
MLB Baseball |
09/21/2008 |
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| e playoffs start, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim hurler John Lackey has a couple of opportunities to work out his recent mound struggles. One will come this afternoon, when the 2007 All-Star tries to pitch the Angels to a three-game road sweep of the Texas Rangers Lackey is 0-2 with a 6.75 earned run average over his last three starts and has served up five home runs in 17 1/3 innings during that span. In his last outing, the burly right-hander held Oakland scoreless over the game's first four frames, but the |
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| Anderson leads Angels past Rangers |
MLB Baseball |
09/20/2008 |
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| Arlington, TX (MySportsbook) - Garret Anderson hit a two-run homer, knocked in three and scored two as the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim beat the Texas Rangers, 7-3, in the middle contest of a three-game series. Anderson finished 3-for-4 with a walk and Erick Aybar had a pair of hits, including a double, and three runs scored for the Angels, who have won three straight and eight of their last 10 games. Dustin Moseley started for the Angels and allowed three runs on eight hits in five-plus innings, recordi |
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| Angels continue set with Rangers |
MLB Baseball |
09/20/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - After putting on a thrilling slugfest on Friday, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and Texas Rangers will go at it again tonight in the middle test of a three-game series in the Lone Star State. These two American League West foes combined for 28 runs and 41 hits in last night's opener, which the Angels won by a 15-13 count. Torii Hunter had one of three Anaheim home runs and racked up four RBI to help the division champs win for the seventh time in their last nine games. Garret Anderson |
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| Angels top Rangers in offensive showcase |
MLB Baseball |
09/20/2008 |
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| Arlington, TX (MySportsbook) - Torii Hunter homered and drove in four runs to help give the Angels a wild 15-13 victory over the Texas Rangers in the first of three games at the Ballpark in Arlington. Garret Anderson went 4-for-6 with two runs scored and two RBI, as every LA starter had at least one hit. Erick Aybar, Mark Teixeira and Mike Napoli each had three hits as the Angels won for the seventh time in nine games. They stayed 2 1/2 games ahead of Tampa Bay for the AL's best record, which would mean h |
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| Rangers SS Young exits early |
MLB Baseball |
09/20/2008 |
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| Arlington, TX (MySportsbook) - Texas Rangers shortstop Michael Young left Friday's 15-13 loss against the Los Angeles Angels after aggravating his fractured right ring finger during an at-bat. Young was 2-for-2 with a run scored and a run driven in at the time of the injury. He was replaced by German Duran in the lineup. The Rangers all-star shortstop is hitting .276 with 12 homers and 76 RBI this season. |
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