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For a while, Eric Chavez was one of the best all-around players in the game, a sweet-swinging third baseman with power and patience and six straight Gold Gloves who played a far bigger role in the Moneyball-era Oakland A's success than Chad Bradford ...

In the hours before starts, most major league pitchers are silent and stone-faced. They forgo interviews and avoid teammates. A.J. Griffin is not most major league pitchers. Before four of his first nine starts this year (4-3, 3.59 ERA), the Oakla...

Tyrann Mathieu's new contract with the Arizona Cardinals is making headlines for the financial particulars. These particulars mean a great deal to the people directly involved in negotiations. Agents, team negotiators and Mathieu himself have a s...

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Elvis Andrus's defense hit a slight bump against Oakland with two errors in two games. He made up for it with a game-saving, over-the-shoulder catch in the fifth inning of Wednesday's 3-1 victory over the A's at Rangers Ballpar...

ARLINGTON, Texas -- The Rangers jumped out with two home runs in the bottom of the first and made it stand for a 3-0 victory over the A's on Wednesday. The Rangers avoided a sweep against their division rivals and also their first three-game losing s...

David Murphy and Adrian Beltre homered in a three-run first inning, Ross Wolf was strong in his first major league start and the Texas Rangers avoided a sweep with a 3-1 victory against the Oakland Athletics on Wednesday.

ARLINGTON, Texas -- The Texas Rangers and Oakland Athletics close out a three-game series in Arlington, with right-hander Ross Wolf facing the A's Jarrod Parker in a 1:05 p.m. matinee on Wednesday. Wolf (first start): Wolf (6-foot, 180 pounds) is ...

ARLINGTON, Texas -- The Texas Rangers have heard their opponents rave many times this season about the pitching of Yu Darvish. Tuesday night, it was the Rangers hitters' turn to heap praise on the opposing pitcher after the Oakland Athletics' 1-0 ...

Quick thoughts on Tuesday's excellent slate of major league action ... A's 1, Rangers 0. Yu Darvish just doesn't know how to win. This is a big victory for the A's as they take the first two of the three-game set. Yoenis Cespedes' home...

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Oakland Athletics starting pitcher Dan Straily entered Tuesday night's game with a 7.27 ERA. But, for one night, Straily outpitched the heralded Yu Darvish in the rarest of rare happenings at Rangers Ballpark, a game in which o...

Athletics-Rangers Preview

Rookie right-hander Dan Straily pitched seven scoreless innings and Yoenis Cespedes homered as the Oakland Athletics won their fifth straight game, 1-0 over the Texas Rangers and Yu Darvish on Tuesday night.

ARLINGTON, Texas -- The shuttle from Round Rock to Rangers Ballpark remains in full swing with a couple more pitchers arriving Tuesday. The Rangers added left-handed reliever Neal Cotts to the 25-man roster and he will be available Tuesday night. ...

A.J. Pierzynski comes off the disabled list and is back in the lineup tonight when the Rangers host Oakland at Rangers Ballpark. Pierzynski, on the disabled list since May 6 with a strained oblique muscle, will catch and bat eighth. The lineups: ...

ARLINGTON, Texas -- The Rangers try to even their series against Oakland when right-hander Yu Darvish takes the mound against A's right-hander Dan Straily at 7:05 p.m. on FSSW and ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM (1540 AM in Spanish). Darvish (7-1, 2.97 ERA):...

ARLINGTON, Texas -- The Oakland Athletics jumped on Texas Rangers right-hander Josh Lindblom for four runs in the fifth inning and the A's went on to win 9-2 in the opening game of a three-game series Monday night. The A's cut the Rangers' lead in...