AccuScore uses past performance statistics to describe how players perform under different environmental,…
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Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig says the AL West champion Texas Rangers have what the franchise deserves, with stability and a great ownership group. Selig's visit to Rangers Ballpark on Wednesday came seven weeks after owners approved the sale of the team to a group headed by team president Nolan Ryan and Chuck Greenberg.
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Torii Hunter's two-out single had barely hit the outfield grass when pink fireworks shot up from the fake rock pile at Angel Stadium. At least the Los Angeles Angels were able to finish up the home portion of their hugely disappointing season with a modest celebration. Hunter drove home Jeff Mathis in the 11th inning, and the Angels wrapped up their home slate with a 2-1 victory over the…
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Torii Hunter, a nine-time Gold Glove center fielder with a reputation for robbing players of home runs, now plays right field while protege Peter Bourjos does his best imitation of the four-time All-Star. Bourjos robbed Landon Powell of a two-run homer just two innings after Hunter opened the game's scoring with a home run, and Dan Haren pitched the Los Angeles Angels to a 4-2 victory over the…
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Bob DuPuy resigned Tuesday as Major League Baseball's chief operating officer following 81/2 years as commissioner Bud Selig's top aide. The move is effective Oct. 31, and Selig doesn't currently intend to replace him. DuPuy was Selig's outside lawyer when he became executive vice president for administration in 1998.
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After all the years of winning under Mike Scioscia, the Los Angeles Angels find themselves facing a losing season for only the second time in his 11 seasons as manager. And the thought of it makes them cringe. But pinch-hitter Hideki Matsui tied the game with an RBI single off Justin James, and the Oakland rookie forced in two more runs by hitting one batter with the bases loaded and walking…
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The 1994 season in Major League baseball had a different look. There were now six divisions, and an extra round of playoffs was to begin. For the first time, a wild card team would make the playoffs. Of course, the 1994 Playoffs never happened due to the strike. The first season of the Division Series took place in 1995 (unless you count the 1981 season which saw a changed playoff format due to the strike that year). The Divison Series helped attract fans back to the game by creating an extra round of excitement for the postseason.
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Rookie Mitch Moreland was too busy working on his approach at the plate to bother worrying about making the playoff roster. He gave the Texas coaching staff something to ponder, though. Moreland homered twice and drove in a career-high five runs, leading the AL West champion Texas Rangers past Trevor Cahill and the Oakland Athletics 16-9 Sunday.
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Josh Wilson hit a tiebreaking, three-run homer in the sixth inning off James Shields and the Seattle Mariners stalled the AL East-leading Tampa Bay Rays 6-2 Sunday.
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The Texas Rangers clinched the AL West title Saturday and their first playoff berth in 11 years, beating the Oakland Athletics 4-3 on Jorge Cantu’s tiebreaking homer in the eighth inning.
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