Texas Smells Blood In Houston — Rangers Morning News

As a result, the Rangers have a season-best three-game lead in the A.L. West with 11 games to go. The under is 9-1-1 in Houston’s last 11 Friday games while the Astros are 43-18 in their last 61 home games and are 3-7 in their last 10 overall.

The A’s are the flip side of the record. Over the three games, the Rangers outscored the A’s 26-10 and were able to hold a lead in 20 of the 27 inning in Oakland. Billy Burns hit a fifth-inning triple that set an Oakland club record (41), but in an apropos statement about this season, Burns didn’t wind up scoring. But Reddick’s two errors, both on ground-ball hits to right field, put a damper on the night defensively.

Cole Hamels #35 of the Texas Rangers warms up prior to the start of the game against the Detroit Tigers on August 23, 2015 at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan.

For the 24th time this season, the Athletics registered at least two errors in a game.

The A’s struggles continued tonight, turning to LHP Felix Doubront.

Chris Bassitt (1-7) gave up three runs and six hits in three innings.

“I think for the most part his cutter’s his pitch, and he just hasn’t been getting it in like he normally does”, manager Bob Melvin said of Doubront’s recent struggles.

Doubront (3-3) allowed just a hit and a walk over his first three innings. Elvis Andrus hammered a 1-0 pitch deep over the left field wall in the Rangers’ four-run fourth.

Right fielder Josh Reddick went 1-for-2, stole two bases and scored a run.

Los Angeles reduced its magic number to win the division to four prior to San Francisco’s game in San Diego later Thursday.

Only Rangers’ centerfielder Delino DeShields’ inability to make a running, waist-high catch at the 30-yard line allowed the A’s to get on the scoreboard. Canha had two hits, including a double.The Rangers scored a run in the first as DeShields worked a leadoff walk, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt and raced home on Beltre’s single.Oakland countered with three runs in the second.

There was one on in the first when Trout launched his 40th homer into left-center to make it 2-0.

Cueto (3-6) was 0-5 in his previous six starts.

“I’m going to keep trying to work at it”, Napoli said. Look, he’s a competitor, too, and I know that he, like any other player, has a lot of pride in what they do on the field.

Vogt has been catching bullpens, and all he’s waiting for is clearance from the training staff. He wants to get behind the plate as often as possible the rest of the way.

Since debuting in 2010, Moreland has been delivering some nice pop on the right side of the infield, but he’s also been rock-solid defensively at first, another reason why the Mississippi State product appears poised to get paid this offseason in the form of a righteous new contract from the only organization he’s known as a professional. Thankfully he doused the back of my head but my eyes and camera stayed relatively dry, enabling me to get a variety of shots of the chaos in the cramped locker room.

This year hasn’t been as good as he would have liked. He was named victor of the A’s Dave Stewart Award for community service and received the Good Guy award from the Bay Area chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) for his superlative conduct with the media.