Rogers defeats A&#39;s for his 17th victory
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ARLINGTON - - Kenny Rogers matched a career high with his 17th win and Eric Young hit his first homer in more than a year, a three-run tiebreaker, leading the Texas Rangers over Oakland 5-3 Wednesday night to move three games back of the Athletics.
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One win from the World Series, the Expos were tied with the Los Angeles Dodgers in the ninth inning. Ace pitcher Steve Rogers was on the mound.
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Andruw Jones homered and drove in three runs to back seven strong innings by Tim Hudson, and the Atlanta Braves ended a three-game skid with a 10-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday night.
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The A&#39;s fell from sole possession of first place and have five games to reassume exclusive control of the American League West.
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BARDOLINO, Italy -- Michael Rogers of Australia has won the world championship time trail in highly convincing fashion, repeating his delayed victory from last year.
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Kenny Rogers has gone from all-star scourge to All-Star game starter. The Tigers&#039; left-hander, the top winner for the team with the best record in the majors, will be on the mound for the AL on Tuesday night against Brad Penny of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Rogers will be trying to extend a nine-game AL unbeaten streak.
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Oakland, CA (Sports Network) - Bartolo Colon hurled seven shutout innings of three-hit ball as the Anaheim Angels drew first blood in this three-game series for the American League West title with a 10-0 victory over the Oakland Athletics at Network
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Garret Anderson homers and has five RBIs, Kelvim Escobar earns his 17th win despite yielding six runs, and the Angels beat the free-falling Orioles, 18-6.
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Mark Lamb and Carlos Beltran homered  while Roy Oswalt won for the 17th time this season as the  Houston Astros chalked up their 11th straight victory, a 9-7  decision over the Cincinnati Reds in the National League (NL)  Tuesday.
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OAKLAND, Calif. Alfonso Soriano had three hits and two RB-Is as the Texas Rangers beat the Oakland Athletics, 12-to-9. The win comes a night after Texas reliever Frank Francisco threw a plastic chair into the stands in Oakland and broke a woman&#39;s nose.
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Yankees starter Chien-Ming Wang shuts down the OriolesÃÂ to getÃÂ his 17th win of the seasonÃÂ in a 3-2 victory on Saturday.
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Often, the older a pitcher becomes, the less effective he is on the mound. Roger Clemens apparently didn&#39;t get that memo. On Tuesday, the 42-year-old Clemens won an unprecedented
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Kenny Rogers' return to the mound went better than he thought it would. Daisuke Matsuzaka's first game back at Petco Park was successful, too.
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Bobby Crosby hit a three-run double in  the fifth inning as the Athletics ended Kenny Rogers dominance  in Oakland, downing the Texas Rangers 5-4 in American League  play on Thursday.
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As everyone knows, the Texas relief pitcher broke a fan&#39;s nose when he heaved a folding chair into the stands at an Oakland A&#39;s game this week.
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Josh Beckett wasn't in the mood to wax sentimental about Roger Clemens after Clemens outdueled him in the Yankees' 4-3 win over the Red Sox last night, dashing his hopes of becoming the major leagues' first 17-game winner.
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Kenny Rogers returned to action with a flourish on Friday, pitching the Detroit Tigers to a interleague 5-0 victory over the Atlanta Braves in his first start of the season.