MLB Sep 30, 2013

Rangers, Rays force wild-card tiebreaker

The Texas Rangers had to keep winning to keep playing. After seven wins in a row, they have to do it one more time to get into the playoffs. Craig Gentry had a key two-run single, Geovany Soto had a tiebreaking RBI double and ...

Baseball | SPORTS SCOPE Aug 12, 2013

MLB chatter sure to increase as Tanaka dominates in NPB

by Jason Coskrey

It was Friday morning in Japan when Detroit Tigers pitcher Max Scherzer earned his 17th win of the MLB season. As the visiting Tigers were wrapping up a 10-3 road drubbing of the Cleveland Indians, Masahiro Tanaka was an ocean away in Sendai, perhaps ...

MLB Jul 7, 2013

Pitchers Darvish, Iwakuma selected for All-Star Game

Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish and fellow right-hander Hisashi Iwakuma of the Seattle Mariners were both named to the American League All-Star team on Saturday. Darvish, 26, was selected for the second year in a row, while the 32-year-old Iwakuma earned a spot for ...

MLB Jun 9, 2013

Darvish impressing experts with his strikeout ability

by Jason Coskrey

If you watch the home broadcast for one of Yu Darvish’s starts for the Texas Rangers, you will, at some point, hear play-by-play man Steve Busby exhorting, “got him swinging,” after Darvish fans a batter. You’ll hear it a lot, too. After fanning seven ...

MLB May 7, 2013

Darvish ties career-high with 14 strikeouts

Yu Darvish overcame a shaky first two innings Sunday to tie his career high with 14 strikeouts in the Texas Rangers’ 4-3 win over the Boston Red Sox. Darvish (5-1), who leads the majors with 72 punchouts, wasn’t involved in the decision, missing out ...