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| Rangers' Bradley leaves game |
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08/20/2008 |
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| Arlington, TX (MySportsbook) - Texas Rangers designated hitter Milton Bradley left Tuesday's 11-3 loss to the Detroit Tigers with soreness in his left knee. Bradley was 0-for-2 with a walk and run scored before being removed from the lineup for Jarrod Saltalamacchia after seven innings. |
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| Joyce homers twice as Tigers rout Rangers |
MLB Baseball |
08/19/2008 |
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| Arlington, TX (MySportsbook) - Matt Joyce hit a pair of homers and finished with four runs driven in, as the Detroit Tigers used a nine-run seventh to crush the Texas Rangers, 11-3, in the middle contest of a three-game set. Edgar Renteria added a solo shot for the Tigers, who have won four of their last six overall. Gary Sheffield, Miguel Cabrera and Magglio Ordonez each drove in a run in the win. Armando Galarraga (12-4) was decent on the hill to pick up the win, as he lasted six innings and gave up thr |
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| Tigers' Galarraga tries to make Rangers pay |
MLB Baseball |
08/19/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Needless to say, the Texas Rangers are happy with the offseason trade that brought Josh Hamilton to town. They might want to have the one that sent Armando Galarraga packing back, though. Galarraga faces his former club for the first time tonight, when the Detroit Tigers continue a three-game series with Texas at Rangers Ballpark. The Rangers swapped pitcher Edinson Volquez for Hamilton over the winter, and although Volquez is making a name for himself in the National League with the Reds |
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| Rangers' Kinsler placed on DL |
MLB Baseball |
08/19/2008 |
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| Arlington, TX (MySportsbook) - Texas Rangers second baseman and American League MVP candidate Ian Kinsler was placed on the 15-day disabled list Monday with a sports hernia, which will likely require season-ending surgery. Coming into Monday's action, Kinsler, 26, led the majors in hits (165) and runs (102) while posting a superb .319 average with 41 doubles, 71 RBI and 26 steals, all of which have already surpassed his previous career-highs. The All-Star suffered the injury fielding a ground ball on Sund |
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| Granderson, Tigers hold on to down Rangers |
MLB Baseball |
08/19/2008 |
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| Arlington, TX (MySportsbook) - Curtis Granderson's two triples and four RBI helped give Kenny Rogers a victory over his old team, as the Detroit Tigers held off the pesky Texas Rangers, 8-7 in the opener of a three-game set. Rogers (9-10), who was drafted by Texas in the 39th round of the 1982 draft and spent three different stints with the club, struck out seven and gave up three runs on eight hits and four walks to snap a personal four-start skid. Gary Sheffield had three hits, including a two-run homer |
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| Slumping Rogers tries to lead Tigers past Rangers |
MLB Baseball |
08/18/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Kenny Rogers will try to halt his four-start losing streak in the place he began his career. Rogers will take the hill tonight, when his Detroit Tigers visit the Texas Rangers for the start of a three-game set in Arlington. Rogers' losing streak, in which he is pitching to a 7.66 earned run average during, has dropped him to 8-10 on the season with a 4.95 season ERA. He has allowed at least four runs in each setback, including Wednesday against Toronto. On that day, he was tagged for four |
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| Boston hopes to get untracked in Baltimore |
MLB Baseball |
08/18/2008 |
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| MySportsbook) - Jon Lester hopes to get the Boston Red Sox back in the win column this evening when they open a three-game series with the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards. After scoring 37 runs in winning all three games from its series with the Texas Rangers, Boston's bats were silenced over the weekend by the Toronto Blue Jays, who swept a rain-shortened two-game set at Fenway Park. Shaun Marcum followed up Roy Halladay's brilliant performance from Saturday on Sunday, as he held the Red Sox to just a r |
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| The AL's top two teams play the first of three in St. Petersburg |
MLB Baseball |
08/18/2008 |
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| ers tonight's potential playoff preview with a 4 1/2-game edge on the Boston Red Sox in the AL East. Injuries this past week to Carl Crawford, Evan Longoria and Troy Percival did not slow them any, as the Rays took two of three this weekend from the Texas Rangers and have won seven of their last nine. On Sunday, Scott Kazmir was convincing on the mound, while B.J. Upton and Carlos Pena both homered to lead Tampa Bay to a 7-4 victory in the finale of the three-game set in Arlington. Upton and Pena both finish |
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| Rays hold off Rangers |
MLB Baseball |
08/17/2008 |
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| Arlington, TX (MySportsbook) - Scott Kazmir was convincing on the mound, while B.J. Upton and Carlos Pena both homered to lead the Tampa Bay Rays in a 7-4 victory over the Texas Rangers in the finale of a three-game set. Kazmir (9-6) gave up just two runs on four hits while fanning seven and walking four over six innings of work. Dan Wheeler came in to record the final out and earned his fifth save of the season in the process. Upton and Pena both finished with three RBI for the Rays, who have won four of |
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| Jays pound Beckett, BoSox |
MLB Baseball |
08/17/2008 |
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| each of his last three starts, after going 0-2 with five no- decisions in his previous seven starts...Toronto set a club record by hitting 10 doubles, and improved to 7-0 this season when scoring 10-or-more runs...Boston last allowed 22 hits to the Texas Rangers at Fenway on June 11, 2006...Beckett's shortest prior start came on April 6 at Toronto, a loss where he lasted 4 2/3 innings...Prior to the game, the Red Sox honored former manager Dick Williams, who was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in la |
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