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Hughes struggles again in Yankees loss at Texas

ARLINGTON, Texas—Struggling New York Yankees starter Phil Hughes conjured up the wrong memories of his past games at Rangers Ballpark. Instead of the dominating pitcher he was in his previous three regular-season games in Texas, [...]

Posted On : Apr, 26 2012 | Comments : 0

Baseball: Texas Rangers catch a break on squeeze play

Alberto Gonzalez squared to bunt, hoping to drive in the go-ahead run on a squeeze play. The ball hit his bat and glanced off his right leg before bouncing off the ground and toward the pitcher. Then the Texas Rangers caught a break. Inst [...]

Posted On : Apr, 23 2012 | Comments : 0

Baseball takes down Texas State with four-run inning

No. 25 Baylor baseball kept its perfect record under the lights intact Wednesday at The Dell Diamond in Round Rock, defeating Texas State 5-1. The second pitch of the game struck junior designated hitter Nathan Orf in the side. Junior thi [...]

Posted On : Feb, 23 2012 | Comments : 0

Texas formally introduces Yu Darvish

Yu Darvish leaned over and looked at his name and the No. 11 on the back of his Texas Rangers jersey. Then he looked up and smiled. “Excited, that's all I feel right now,” Darvish said through a translator. “Just exc [...]

Posted On : Jan, 23 2012 | Comments : 0

Texas nun keeps faith in Rangers, baseball

Sister Frances Evans (above left), 85, has been cheering for the Texas Rangers ever since the team moved west from Washington, D.C., in 1972. She spoke with The Times before attending Game 5 of the World Series in Arlington on Monday n [...]

Posted On : Oct, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Texas Rangers rewriting baseball history

"Legends are born in October" is Major League Baseball's postseason marketing slogan this fall. And it's as fine and true as, well, a Nelson Cruz home run in an edge-of-your chair playoff game. The Texas Rangers though [...]

Posted On : Oct, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Texas' Josh Hamilton easily wins AL MVP award

Josh Hamilton thought back to the days when his career was derailed by drugs and alcohol. "I would say a 99 percent chance that this would never happen," he said. "I mean, honestly, I think a lot of people would agree with [...]

Posted On : Nov, 25 2010 | Comments : 0

Texas' Josh Hamilton Wins AL MVP

Texas outfielder Josh Hamilton was a runaway winner of the American League's Most Valuable Player award. Hamilton received 22 first-place votes and 358 points in voting announced Tuesday by the Baseball Writers' Association of Am [...]

Posted On : Nov, 24 2010 | Comments : 0

Texas Rangers Beat San Francisco Giants 4-2 in Third World S...

Colby Lewis and the Texas Rangers threw the biggest tailgate party of them all, beating San Francisco 4-2 on Saturday night and cutting the Giants' edge in the World Series to 2-1. Rookie Mitch Moreland hit an early three-run homer, [...]

Posted On : Nov, 01 2010 | Comments : 0

Pinstripes’ Hughes crushed in Texas

Phil Hughes went from never giving up a run at Rangers Ballpark to hardly going an inning without doing so. And this time, the New York Yankees couldn't bail out their struggling starter. Hughes entered Game 2 of the AL championship [...]

Posted On : Oct, 18 2010 | Comments : 0

Texas Rangers baseball notes

Colby Lewis didn't quite live up to his standards of giving Texas a quality start Saturday against the New York Yankees. Manager Ron Washington didn't seem too concerned about that, though, after the Rangers evened the ALCS. [...]

Posted On : Oct, 17 2010 | Comments : 0

Texas Rangers' bankrputcy could help New York Mets' hunt for...

A judge said Tuesday that the Texas Rangers will have to amend the team's bankruptcy plan, dealing a blow to a Bud Selig-backed proposal to sell the franchise to a group led by Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan. However, the scuttled R [...]

Posted On : Jun, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

Guerrero completes deal with Texas Rangers

Vladimir Guerrero will now be hitting in the middle of the lineup for the Texas Rangers instead of doing damage against them. Guerrero and the Rangers finalized a one-year contract Monday that guarantees him $6.5 million and includes a mutu [...]

Posted On : Jan, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

11-run lead almost not enough for Toronto in Texas

Adam Lind and Rod Barajas each homered twice, with Lind's first career grand slam helping power Toronto to a big early lead before the Blue Jays held on for a 18-10 victory over the slipping Texas Rangers on Monday night. Lind had a ca [...]