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The Dugout: End of the Season Spectacular

My sincerest possible congratulations to the San Francisco Giants for becoming the 2010 World Series champions of Baseball and Fun. They're a great team full of struggling hitters and lovable nobodies, which makes them exactly the type of team that should be winning the World Series. Everybody who complains about the...

Texas' World Series Failures Run Gamut

ARLINGTON, Texas -- There is no end to the ways that the Texas Rangers hurt themselves in the 2010 World Series. After Game 1, they didn't score a run without the benefit of a homer. For the last 21 innings, they got just two men as far as second base. In Game 2, down just 2-0 in the bottom of the eighth inning, the...

At Cliff's Edge, Rangers Turn to Lee

ARLINGTON, Texas -- The Texas Rangers are up against it now. Down three games to one to San Francisco in the World Series, they face elimination in Game 5 Monday night, and their opposition is two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum. On the bright side, Texas has its ace, Cliff Lee, pitching in this one, and he's...

Tim Lincecum Finds Composure, Holds Off Rangers in World Series Game 1

SAN FRANCISCO -- Let us stop for a moment and consider the importance of maintaining composure during an athletic endeavor, or regaining it once you lose it. The latest poster boy for composure is San Francisco Giants' starter Tim Lincecum, who seemed in the first couple of innings Wednesday to be en route to a gargantuan...

2010 World Series: Giants vs. Rangers

If you had picked the San Francisco Giants and Texas Rangers to go to the World Series on Opening Day, people would've told you that you were crazy. Even when the playoffs began some two and a half weeks ago, a Rangers-Giants World Series seemed like a huge longshot. Heck, when the League Championship Series began and the...

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06/04/12 Cruz Blast Takes 2012 Lead Source: NBC DFW Locals Only. Nelson Cruz has a history of sending baseballs a long way into the bleachers, sometimes beyond.
06/04/12 The Juice: Nelson Cruz hits 484-foot homer to help... Source: Angels Homeplate The Juice is back for its fifth season of fun!
06/04/12 Rangers Avoid Sweep Source: CBS - KTVT CBS 11 - Dallas / Fort Worth TX Texas manager Ron Washington gave Nelson Cruz the green light on 3-0, then watched the slugger put reliever Bobby Cassevah's sinker into orbit.
06/03/12 AL roundup: Harrison, Cruz help Rangers halt surging... Source: The Hutchinson News - Hutchinson KS Matt Harrison won his third straight start, Nelson Cruz hit a long two-run homer and the Texas Rangers beat the streaking Los Angeles Angels 7-3 on Sunday to avoid a three-game sweep in Anaheim, Calif.
06/03/12 Nelson Cruz home run helps Rangers sink Angels, 7-3 Source: Los Angeles Times - Los Angeles CA The decisive moment in Texas' 7-3 victory over the Angels on Sunday came in the bottom of the seventh inning, when Rangers reliever Alexi Ogando shattered Albert Pujols ' bat with a 100-mph fastball and induced a weak fly ball to left field to snuff out a bases-loaded, two-out threat and preserve a two-run lead.