Offensive diversity encourages Rangers
The Rangers offense stopped swinging for the fences Saturday and started getting results.On the way to an 8-6 win over Tampa Bay, the Rangers scored their first seven runs without the benefit of a homer. That's a significant accomplishment for a team that had never won a postseason game in which it failed to homer. The streak remains intact, however, because Mitch Moreland homered in the eighth for the Rangers' final run.The Rangers scored five runs in the fourth to come back from a 3-0 deficit. They did not have an extra base hit in the inning. They started the rally with a hit batter and scored their first run on another hit batter. They scored on a strikeout on a wild pitch and they added three singles from the Nos. 3-4 and 6 hitters to inflict the bulk of the pain.After a couple of awkward swings with a man on first, Josh Hamilton bounced a ball through the overshift on the right side of the infield. Michael Young followed with a line-drive single to left to load the bases.Adrian Beltre drove in the first run when he was hit by a pitch. And then, C Mike Napoli, whose two homers in the final game of the season delivered home field advantage in this round of the playoffs, showed he could be just as dangerous with a single. His liner to left drove home the go-ahead runs.The Rangers scored twice more in the sixth on a pair of singles, the team's first pinch hit sac bunt in more than four years, a hit batter and a two-run double to right by pull-happy Ian Kinsler.We're capable of scoring runs in anyway, Kinsler said. We've got lots of ways to create havoc. We feel we are very versatile and don't have to sit back and wait for a three-run homer. Our approach is really to single them to death.
Freddy Garcia hadn't pitched in a postseason game since the 2005 World Series, but the 34-year-old veteran got a quick reminder Sunday how difficult it can be.Garcia gave up a two-run home run by Miguel Cabrera, setting the tone in the Tigers' 5-3 win over the Yankees. Magglio Ordonez, who like Cabrera and Garcia is from Venezuela, reached on a single with one out, setting up Cabrera's two-run shot.I think that was a good pitch down and away; he made good contact, Garcia said of the home run. It's got to be him. I think that was a good pitch in that situation, but it's part of the game.Garcia did his best to limit the damage after the home run, retiring 13 of the next 14 batters he faced. But Max Scherzer dominated the Yankees' lineup through six innings while Garcia allowed two more runs in the sixth, leaving the game with one out.I tried to keep the score 2-0 because I know we're going to hit. We've got the best lineup in baseball, so I was waiting for them, Garcia said. I shut it down waiting for us to start hitting. It never happened, but that's part of the game.Garcia is 6-3 with a 3.28 ERA in 10 career postseason starts, including a 2-2 mark and 5.32 ERA in five Division Series outings.
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