Adrian Beltre News

Holland will try to extend his 19 2-3-inning scoreless streak visiting the Mariners on Saturday night when the AL West-leading Texas Rangers go for their fifth consecutive victory in this divisional matchup.

David Murphy and Adrian Beltre slugged first- inning homers to back a solid performance from Ross Wolf, and Texas clipped Oakland, 3-1, in the finale of a three-game set.

"My personality won't let me do it," he said recently. "I'm not a numbers type of guy.

About three months ago, Jurickson Profar had the world in the palm of his hand. His assured emergence in spring training would push three-time All-Star Ian Kinsler to either the outfield or first base.

Phillies 3, Marlins 0 : Cliff Lee shuts out the Marlins on three hits. Granted, it doesn't take anyone as good as Lee to shut out the Marlins, but that's nothing that Lee could help.

Wolf made the most of another opportunity in the big leagues on Wednesday afternoon, throwing five-plus innings of one-run ball to lead the Rangers to a 3-1 victory over the Oakland Athletics.

Oakland Top 7th - Adam Rosales lined out to second. Runner on third with two outs and Coco Crisp due up.

Seth Smith homered and scored three times, Bartolo Colon pitched seven strong innings for his first win in nearly a month and the Oakland Athletics beat the Texas Rangers 9-2 on Monday night.

Nelson Cruz hit a three-run homer, Alexi Ogando earned his first career win against Oakland and the Texas Rangers took the rubber game with the Athletics 6-2 on Wednesday.

Despite three home runs by the Tigers slugger - his ninth, 10th and 11th of the season - the Tigers lost 11-8 on Sunday night.

Taking advice from Adrian Beltre, Elvis Andrus stepped to the plate in the eighth inning with one goal in mind.

Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington found himself having to defend the 130 pitches he allowed ace Yu Darvish to throw during Thursday night's victory against Justin Verlander and the Detroit Tigers .

And there are times like Friday night's 2-1 loss to Detroit when he gets dragged through the undertow.

Then again, that's what happens when your ace, your All-Star, your Justin Verlander, has one of the worst starts - not to mention, the worst inning - of his career.

Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Justin Verlander goes into the team's dugout after being taken out of the game in the third inning during the Detroit Tigers game with the Texas Rangers in Arlington, Texas.

Right now because of my schedule I've been stuck playing catch-up. This article is recapping Tuesday's win.

Lance Berkman hit a two-run single and Adrian Beltre added an RBI single a day after hitting a 10th-inning home run as the Rangers won their first series in Oakland since Sept.

In a move that manager Ron Washington said on Tuesdaywas coming, Robinson Chirinos will make his second start for the Rangers at catcher and Geovany Soto will sit for a day game following a night game.

Adrian Beltre and Mitch Moreland each crushed solo home runs in the 10th inning and Joe Nathan survived a shaky bottom half to help the Texas Rangers down the Oakland Athletics, 6-5, in the middle test of a three-game series between the AL West rivals.

MAY 12: Adrian Beltre #29 of the Texas Rangers watches as he hits a three run home run that was initially called a double at Minute Maid Park on May 12, 2013 in Houston, Texas.