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Phillies confirm trade for INF Michael Young
Michael Young's leadership skills were as attractive to the Philadelphia Phillies as his hitting ability. The Phillies acquired the seven-time ...
Orioles knock out 2-time AL champion Rangers 5-1
Buck Showalter and the Baltimore Orioles will get another chance to overtake the New York Yankees. The surprising O's have already beaten some big ...
Athletics sweep Rangers to win AL West on last day
The Oakland Athletics had been down and doubted so many times during this remarkable year that a four-run deficit against the two-time reigning AL ...
Cardinals clinch baseball's last postseason berth
Rather than spraying champagne in every direction, the defending World Series champions talked about holding a subdued party if they squeezed into the ...
A's forge 1st-place tie with 3-1 win over Rangers
After erasing what once appeared to be an insurmountable deficit, it has come down to this for the Oakland Athletics — one game against the Texas ...
A's win, back in playoffs for 1st time in 6 years
This time, it was manager Bob Melvin who took a whipped cream pie in the face. All those walk-off wins from guys hardly known beyond the Bay Area ...
Rangers rally past A's 5-4 for 5-game AL West lead
Adrian Beltre slowed down as he rounded first base, folded his arms and bent over to protect himself from the oncoming rush of Texas Rangers teammates
Texas within reach of AL West title in tight race
Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington held out one hand, then the other. Another division title is within reach for the two-time defending American ...
At 19, Profar HRs 1st time up, Texas beats Indians
Jurickson Profar took his major league debut in stride. To the highly touted 19-year-old for the Texas Rangers, he was just playing another game of ...
Beltre hits 3 homers for Rangers
It certainly wasn't the homecoming Tommy Hunter envisioned. Baltimore's right-hander, who spent parts of four seasons with the Rangers and still lives ...
Rangers' Darvish to miss start with quad problem
Texas Rangers right-hander Yu Darvish will miss his next start on Thursday because of tightness in his right quadriceps muscle. The Rangers say the ...
Rangers avoid 4-game sweep, beating Yankees 10-6
These romps around the bases fit the Texas Rangers just fine. Craig Gentry turned a spot start into a tiebreaking hit and the Rangers avoided a ...
Kuroda pitches 2-hitter, Yankees beat Rangers 3-0
The New York Yankees are in need of a reliable ace right now. Hiroki Kuroda has been the man for the job. Kuroda pitched a two-hitter and the Yankees ...
Swisher's slam helps Yankees beat Rangers
Nick Swisher hit a grand slam off Ryan Dempster and drove in five runs, Derek Lowe closed with four shutout innings in his Yankees debut and New York ...
Andrus, Rangers win wild game over Angels
Elvis Andrus and the Texas Rangers were not going to let the Angels beat them again — even if they needed two improbable comebacks to win. Andrus had ...
Holland, Rangers post 5-3 victory over Red Sox
Derek Holland is intent on making up for the time he missed on the mound for the Texas Rangers, who keep winning series at home. The left-hander ...
Rangers RHP Colby Lewis out for season
Rangers pitcher Colby Lewis will miss the rest of the season because of a torn flexor tendon in his right elbow. Lewis was evaluated by team physician ...
Darvish variety to Dickey mastery for same results
Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan had a blazing fastball, the first ever clocked at 100 mph, during 27 seasons that included 5,714 strikeouts and seven ...
Giant blowout: NL routs AL 8-0 in All-Star game
Melky Cabrera, Pablo Sandoval and Matt Cain helped the National League to a Giant blowout in the All-Star game. After all the talk about AL dominance ...
Column: So much for inferiority complexes
One league has more money to throw around, better hitters, better pitchers, better teams and a nearly decade-long streak of dominance in interleague ...
Harper and Trout go from farmhands to fame
Bryce Harper remembered back to Oct. 27, when just 414 fans were at Scottsdale Stadium to watch his Scorpions play the Mesa Solar Sox in the Arizona ...
After 1st-half tumult, All-Stars pull into KC
Much has changed since the All-Stars last pulled into town in 1973. Then again, it seems like much of baseball has been turned upside down since the ...
Rangers' Darvish, Cardinals' Freese win fan vote
Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish was hit by a line drive during one All-Star game in Japan. He's hoping to avoid that mishap on Tuesday. Darvish and ...
La Russa, Washington fidget with All-Star lineups
Ron Washington and Tony La Russa have been spending most of their spare moments the past few days fidgeting with potential lineups for next week's ...