DETROIT (AP) Justin Verlander pitched six innings without allowing an earned run, and the Detroit Tigers salvaged a split of their doubleheader with Texas, beating the Rangers 3-2 in the nightcap Saturday.
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CHICAGO (AP) The arm is fine, the shoulder is sound and the legs are strong. There are no scheduled surgeries. No minor league rehab starts, either.
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The 2012 MLB regular season well underway. It will be a long road to October baseball but one every team and fan is excited to travel this season. The beginning of the year brings promise, as many memories will surely be created this season. At this point, anything can happen!
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Red-hot Rangers : That Small Sample Size song? Yeah, maybe we should add Texas to the list of exempt teams. The Rangers stayed hot on Thursday with a 10-3 rout of the Detroit Tigers , good enough for their seventh straight win and a best-in-baseball record of 11-2. Mike Napoli homered for the fourth straight game while Yu Darvish earned his second win of the season by pitching into the seventh inning. They’re a perfect 6-0 on the road, but have a stern test coming up on Saturday when Justin Verlander gets the start at Comerica.
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Ailing Angels : While the Rangers can’t lose, their supposed main competition in the AL West can’t win. The Halos dropped a 4-2 decision to Oakland , inflating the A’s measly three hits with three errors. But cue that Small Sample Size song because Albert Pujols isn’t worried about his total of zero homers or the Angels’ piddly 4-9 start.
”That’s why we play 162 games,” Pujols said. ”We can get a good streak going and forget about what happened in April. … We know that things could be better, but they’re not, and it’s not because we’re not trying.”
Whattsamatter with Waino? : The Cardinals have gotten off to an encouraging start without Albert Pujols, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t ripples of worry underneath that success. Lance Berkman hit the DL on Thursday while Adam Wainwright struggled again in a 6-3 loss to Cincinnati . The righthander gave up four runs in five innings, bringing his ERA to 9.88 as he tries to regain his pre-Tommy John form.
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) Ivan Rodriguez is going back to Texas to retire.
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You can’t put a price on all of the laughs we’ve shared while watching replays of the time that a ball bounced off Jose Canseco’s head and over the wall for a home run.
You can, however, put a price on the cap that Canseco was wearing that day.
Yes, Heritage Auctions has a listing for the New Era Texas Rangers cap ( size 7 1/2) that became an unwitting victim when Canseco misplayed Carlos Martinez’s fly ball at the old Cleveland Stadium in a game on May 26, 1993 . The end result, of course, was the 23rd of Martinez’s 25 career home runs and an eternal spot on blooper reels around the world. (Can you imagine had blogs existed then?)
Canseco refuses to call the play a home run and insists on calling it a four-base error instead. Why he actually thinks that qualifies as a euphemism is anyone’s guess, but Canseco recently tweeted that he’d like to get his cap back — if he can afford it.
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BOSTON (AP) Mike Napoli hit a two-run homer and drove in four runs, Derek Holland pitched seven solid innings and the red-hot Texas Rangers completed a two-game sweep with a 6-3 win over the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday night.
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The Boston Red Sox are reeling. Two-thirds of the starting outfielders are on the disabled list. The club’s two best starters have each turned in a horrendous game already, barely two times through the rotation. There has already been a confrontation between the new manager and a couple of veteran players.
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The 2012 MLB regular season is finally underway. It will be a long road to October baseball but one every team and fan is excited to travel this season. The beginning of the year brings promise, as many memories will surely be created this season. At this point, anything can happen!
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On Monday, April 16, 2012, the San Francisco Giants and Madison Bumgarner have agreed to a five-year, $35.56 million extension that could keep him with the team through 2019. With the Giants’ latest signing, the team will have Tim Lincecum, Matt Cain and Bumgarner together for at least another season. Several weeks ago, the Giants made Cain the highest-paid right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball history.
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