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Baseball Brunch: (St)Ranger Than Fiction, Texas Pitching Is Pretty Good

NEW YORK – Thanks in part to the influence of a 300-game winner, and the brother of a 300-game winner, the Rangers no longer have to try to out-slug people.In the most remarkable turnaround of the season, Texas' pitching staff is actually pretty good, with a 4.46 ERA after shutouts Thursday and Friday and allowing...

From Wild Thing to Big Unit to 300

SAN FRANCISCO -- Even though Randy Johnson was the one who was pitching, catcher Dave Valle still woke up the next day with a sore left shoulder.Valle, the Mariners' primary catcher in the early '90s, was the man who had to handle Johnson when he was more Wild Thing than Big Unit."The fastball would soar up and away (to...

MLB Power Rankings: Week 5

MLB Power Rankings: Where MLB FanHouse's editors, writers and bloggers team up to break down the who's who and the what's what in the baseball world.What a zany week for a pair of pitchers with amazing stories: Zack Greinke is America's favorite story right now, somehow managing to be hotter than Twitter. (And if Oprah...

Holland Harbinger of Future in Texas

BALTIMORE – The Texas Rangers are changing. The arrival of 22-year-old left-handed pitcher Derek Holland in the majors is merely one of the first signs. You wouldn't know changes are afoot on a steamy Monday night as Texas wraps up a four-game series against the Orioles. It is hot – game-time temperature at...

The Dugout: No Use for a Name

On Wednesday, Rangers pitcher Darren O'Day wore ex-Ranger Kason Gabbard's jersey onto the field and promptly gave up a hit to end the game. There is precedent for this, of course. During Game Seven of the 1991 World Series, Lonnie Smith's jersey was mistakenly donned by a four-year-old who had just fallen off a...

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06/02/12 Kinsler makes costly error in Rangers' 4-2 loss Source: The Daily Tribune - Mount Pleasant TX When the Los Angeles Angels had two on and two outs in a tie game, Texas manager Ron Washington summoned Alexi Ogando.
06/02/12 Reds send Astros to 7th straight loss; Trout leads... Source: The Monitor - McAllen TX Unfortunately for the Houston Astros, so did Mike Leake.
06/02/12 Angels outfield could leave little room for Vernon... Source: Los Angeles Times - Los Angeles CA A lot can change in two weeks, as the Angels , who turned their season around with an 11-5 run entering Friday, can attest.
06/02/12 Trout leads Angels' comeback over Rangers Source: Sify Lewis had allowed just one hit and took a 2-0 lead into the sixth before the Angels tied it.
06/02/12 Trout leads Angels' comeback over Rangers Source: CBS - KLAS 8 - Las Vegas NV Mike Trout hit an RBI triple in the sixth inning and a tiebreaking two-run single in the seventh, leading the Los Angeles Angels to a 4-2 victory over the Texas Rangers on Friday night.