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Sacramento Bee
| 8 months ago
Yoenis Cespedes uncoiled a powerful swing and then froze, one step into his home run trot, still partly in the batter's box, watching his towering eighth-inning drive arc over the left-field fence. After a 5-2 win over the Seattle Mariners on Sunday,...
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The News Tribune
| 8 months ago
Texas Los Angeles Angels center fielder Mike Trout became the first major league rookie ever with 30 home runs and 40 stolen bases. Trout, 21, hit his 30th homer Sunday, a two-out solo shot off the first pitch Texas Rangers starting pitcher Yu...
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The Herald
| 8 months ago
The A's enter their final series of the season on the cusp of a wild-card berth, which is enough in itself to boggle the mind. Now consider they control their own destiny to the American League West championship, and the stage is set for a...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
Texas Torii Hunter added a page to his free-agent resume Sunday...With seven hits in Sunday's doubleheader including the game-winning double in the first game he lifted his batting average to .313. If he were to go 0 for 5 in each of the remaining...
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The Orange County Register
| 8 months ago
Whatever hope the Angels salvaged with a come-from-behind win in the first game of Sunday's crucial doubleheader was stolen from them in the second game...Right-hander Ervin Santana gave up three home runs including two by the avenging ex-Angel Mike...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
Texas The Angels shuffled off the field, their season over every way but mathematically, surrounded by the sights and sounds of joy. The Texas Rangers did not dance in the faces of the Angels, but the public address announcer shouted deliriously into...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Tommy Milone walked off the mound in the fifth inning convinced he'd pitch again. In the playoffs. "Yeah, definitely," he said. "The way we've been playing, there's not a doubt in my mind we're going to be able to make it to at least one of the wild-...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 8 months ago
Font Resize Associated Press Mike Napoli homered twice and drove in six runs as the Texas Rangers assured themselves and two other teams of spots in the playoffs with an 8-7 victory Sunday night, earning a doubleheader split against the Los Angeles...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 8 months ago
The A's could clinch a playoff berth Monday night, but there's more at stake. Here's a quick look: They will clinch a wild-card spot by beating Texas once, or by having both Tampa Bay and the Los Angeles Angels lose once...West and advance to the...
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The Orange County Register
| 8 months ago
30 pm · Angels right-hander Ervin Santana gave up three home runs and didn't make it out of the third inning as the Angels lost the second game of Sunday's doubleheader to the Rangers, 8-7. With the loss and wins by the A's, Rays, Orioles and Yankees...
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Bremerton Sun
| 8 months ago
Photo by Ben Margot Seattle Mariners' Kyle Seager removes his helmet after striking out in the seventh inning of Sunday's game. (Associated Press) Trying to push through another offensively disappointing season with a strong final week, the Seattle...
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Fort Worth Star Telegram
| 8 months ago
The Texas Rangers have clinched their third consecutive postseason berth. The Rangers assured themselves as being one of the two American League wild card teams with an 8-7 victory over the Los Angeles Angels in Game 2 of Sundays doubleheader at...
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The Dallas Morning News
| 8 months ago
A Text Size Louis DeLuca/Staff Photographer Texas catcher Mike Napoli is greeted at the dugout by jubilant teammates after his second home run of the night, this one in the third inning, which gave the Rangers a 6-4 lead during the Los Angeles...
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Seattle Times
| 8 months ago
Long before Yoenis Cespedes took Shawn Kelley over the left field wall in the eighth inning to launch a three-run outburst and seal Seattle's 5-2 defeat at the hands of the Oakland Athletics. It was the fifth homer by Cespedes against the Mariners in...
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International Herald Tribune
| 8 months ago
Yankees The Rangers were one out away from clinching at least a wild-card spot when Torii Hunter ripped a two-run double to left-center field off closer Joe Nathan. The victory kept alive the Angels' slim chances in the wild card race with four games...
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The Bellingham Herald
| 8 months ago
Yoenis Cespedes hit a go-ahead homer in the eighth inning to move Oakland a win closer to the club's first playoff berth in six years, and the Athletics beat the Seattle Mariners 5-2 on Sunday to stay right on the heels of Texas in the AL West race.
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The Bellingham Herald
| 8 months ago
Yoenis Cespedes hit a go-ahead homer in the eighth inning to move Oakland a win closer to the club's first playoff berth in six years, and the Athletics beat the Seattle Mariners 5-2 on Sunday to stay right on the heels of Texas in the AL West race.
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The Idaho Statesman
| 8 months ago
Texas Torii Hunter hit a two-run double with two outs in the ninth inning, and the Los Angeles Angels boosted their wild-card chances by rallying past the AL West-leading Texas Rangers 5-4 Sunday in the opener of a day-night doubleheader. Hunter's...
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The Orange County Register
| 8 months ago
22 pm · On the brink of elimination from the division race and nearing the edge of playoff elimination entirely, the Angels rallied for two runs in the ninth inning with another clutch hit from Torii Hunter giving them a 5-4 come-from-behind victory...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
Torii Hunter saved the day for the Angels , and maybe the season. Hunter's two-out, two-run double in the ninth inning Sunday gave the Angels a 5-4 victory over the Texas Rangers in the first game of a doubleheader. The victory moved the Angels to...
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The Mercury News
| 8 months ago
That's the result of the goings-on in Texas, where the Los Angeles Angels came from behind to beat the Rangers in the first game of a doubleheader. Trailing 4-3 with two outs in the ninth inning, the Angels got a two-run double by Torii Hunter off...
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The Globe & Mail
| 8 months ago
Torii Hunter hit a two-run double with two outs in the ninth inning, and the Los Angeles Angels boosted their wild-card chances by rallying past the AL West-leading Texas Rangers 5-4 in the opener of a day-night doubleheader Sunday. Hunter's double...
