Derek Holland News

David Murphy, as honest as a baseball game is long, revealed late Saturday night that he hasn't felt his best at the plate during his recent hot stretch that is turning around his season.

The Texas Rangers attempt to keep pace as the American League's top team on Saturday night as they continue their three-game road series with the Seattle Mariners.

MLB Team Report - Seattle Mariners - INSIDE PITCH Right-hander Brendan Maurer has shown enough that the Mariners can be excited about his future, but he also has shown enough to prove that his present might be better-suited in Triple-A Tacoma.

MLB Team Report - Texas Rangers - INSIDE PITCH The Rangers had to call on right-handed pitchers Josh Lindblom and Ross Wolf this week to make emergency starts.

Rangers starter: LHP Derek Holland has seemed to slip back into some old, bad habits in his last two starts, losing focus in key situations.

The Rangers visit Seattle for the second time this season and draw the Mariners' best starters in this three game set The Rangers are following up a 4-3 homestand, wherein they lost a home series for only the second time in 2013, by heading to Seattle to begin a five game road trip that concludes with a scheduled doubleheader against their newest ... (more)

With about a quarter of the 2013 season in the books, the American League West still has its fair share of questions moving forward as it did at the beginning of the season.

The Seattle Mariners have lost six in a row and are in danger of falling behind the Los Angeles Angels and into fourth place in the A.L. West.

MARCH 04: Justin Smoak #17 of the Seattle Mariners his a single against the Cincinnati Reds during the second inning of the spring training game at Peoria Stadium on March 4, 2011 in Peoria, Arizona.

David Murphy stroked a go-ahead three-run homer in the sixth and the Texas Rangers won a slugfest, 11-8, over the Detroit Tigers on Sunday in the finale of a four-game set.

On Monday, the Rangers decided to go without an emergency starter on their major league roster.

The Rangers called up left-hander Neal Cotts on Tuesday from Triple-A Round Rock, almost four years to the day when he last pitched in the Major Leagues.

The first-place team that was 19-11 now is in second at 23-19, heading into a two-game series against the division-leading Indians.

Miguel Cabrera hit three home runs totaling nearly a quarter-mile of distance Sunday night in Arlington, Texas.

Jurickson Profar started his big-league career with a home run in Cleveland last September.

Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera has hit three home runs in a game for the second time in his career.

Jason Frasor 2, Derek Holland 24, Michael Kirkman 2, Derek Lowe 4, Joe Nathan 4, Robbie Ross 4, Tanner Scheppers 5 The Toronto Blue Jays saw their weekend series against the New York Yankees cut short Sunday by rain.

Minnesota Twins' Josh Willingham rounds the bases on his two-run home run off Texas Rangers pitcher Derek Holland in the sixth inning Saturday, April 27, 2013, in Minneapolis.

Texas left fielder David Murphy is greeted at home plate by teammates Leonys Martin and Elvis Andrus after Miurphy clubbed a three-run homer in the sixth inning to give Texas an 8-7 lead during the Detroit Tigers vs.

Texas Rangers left-hander Derek Holland, who faces Detroit in the series finale Sunday, has been doing a lot of talking to himself between starts.